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AMERICANS TRUST THEIR FEDERATED NEWS AGENCIES AND POPULAR MEDIA TO KEEP THEM INFORMED AND UP TO THE DATE ON NEWS AND EVENTS. HOWEVER, IT HAS BEEN

WELL ESTABLISHED THAT THE MAJOR MEDIA IS COMPLIANT TO THE WILL OF INVISIBLE AND POWERFUL POLITICAL INTERESTS AND THEREFORE WILL MOLD AND EVEN MANUFACTURE THE NEWS YOU SEE AND HEAR FOR POLITICAL GAIN-YOU SIMPLY CANNOT TRUST THAT THE NEWS IS THE NEWS ANY LONGER.

ANOTHER PLAN AT WORK, A MORE SINISTER PLAN, IS TO KEEP YOU LULLED INTO A SENSE OF COMPLACENCY ABOUT LIFE AND MIRED IN THE DAY TO DAY NEWS DRAMAS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DISTRACTING YOU FROM NOTICING THAT CERTAIN NEWS AND EVENTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WOULD GIVE PROOF THAT MANY BIBLICAL PROPHECIES ARE EITHER IN THEIR INITIAL STAGES OR BEING FULFILLED AT THIS MOMENT- ALL FOR THE SINGULAR PURPOSE TO PREVENT YOU FROM KNOWING WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON, MISS THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES PROPHESIED, MISS THE COMING RAPTURE, AND END UP DOOMED TO FACE THE COMING OF ANTI-CHRIST, THE COMING GREAT TRIBULATION, AND SUFFER GOD'S JUDGMENTS TO SOON COME UPON THE WORLD.

SO, WHAT IS GOING ON, AND WHY........

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW SCIENCE MAKES ITS OWN RULES

Stephen Hawking says he knows what happened before the dawn of time Fox News

It's the biggest question in the universe. What happened before the Big Bang? Now world-famous physicist Steven Hawking says he has an answer.

“The boundary condition of the universe ... is that it has no boundary,” Hawking tells the National Geographic’s Star Talk show this weekend. In other words, there is no time before time began as time was always there. It was just different. He tells physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson that amid the almost infinitely small quantum foam of the singularity before the Big Bang, time existed in a ‘bent’” state. It was distorted along another dimension — always getting fractionally closer to, but never becoming, nothing.

So there never was a Big Bang that created something from nothing It’s just looks that way from our point of perspective.

“All the evidence seems to indicate, that the universe has not existed forever, but that it had a beginning, about 15 billion years ago,” Hawking says in one of his lectures. “There must have been a beginning. Otherwise, the universe would be in a state of complete disorder by now, and everything would be at the same temperature. In an infinite and everlasting universe, every line of sight would end on the surface of a star. This would mean that the night sky would have been as bright as the surface of the Sun. The only way of avoiding this problem would be if, for some reason, the stars did not shine before a certain time.”

But things were different at the Big Bang.

“The density would have been infinite,” Hawking says.

“It would have been what is called, a singularity. At a singularity, all the laws of physics would have broken down. This means that the state of the universe, after the Big Bang, will not depend on anything that may have happened before, because the deterministic laws that govern the universe will break down in the Big Bang.”

This has long posed a serious problem for physics, he says.

“Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there’s no way one could measure what happened at them.” But there are ways to figure out what came before, he says.

“Quantum theory introduces a new idea, that of imaginary time. Imaginary time may sound like science fiction, and it has been brought into Doctor Who. But nevertheless, it is a genuine scientific concept. One can picture it in the following way. One can think of ordinary, real, time as a horizontal line. On the left, one has the past, and on the right, the future. But there’s another kind of time in the verticaldirection. This is called imaginary time, because it is not the kind of time we normally experience. But in a sense, it is just as real aswhat we call real time.”

This has enormous implications when it comes to the Big Bang.

“James Hartle of the University of California Santa Barbara, and I have proposed that space and imaginary time together, are indeed finite in extent, but without boundary. They would be like the surface of the Earth, but with two more dimensions. The surface of the Earth is finite in extent, but it doesn’t have any boundaries or edges. I have been around the world, and I didn’t fall off. “ (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Blah, blah, blah! Isn't it great to work in an industry where you can make up all kinds of preposterous and unprovable theories to support your scientific or personal points of view?

Hawking is a strict athiest, having published his own thesis denying the arguments for the existence of a creator God. His credibility comes into question on the issues of creation. His credibilty also comes into question (as it does for most anyone in the theoretical physics field) when the subject of dimensions is ever used to support claims like these. Much to the anguish of so many Physicists Biblebybennett had argued with over the years, dimensions, to this day, still only exist on paper, never having been proven to exist in any experiment.

Notice how the News Media laps up what Dr. Hawking claims without challenging him in any way, shape, or form?

This makes it easy for people like Hawking to claim there is no God, the creation story is fake, and The Bible is all hooey when you base your work on an unprovable x-factors, such as dimensions, doesn't it. This would be like Biblebybennett claiming that The Bible has magic properties simply because it contains the inerrant word of God. This simply cannot be proven but that same News Media will tear away at the claim, as they usually do, with all sorts of errant facts and opinions from competing religions.

Hawking is allowed to sell his athiestic views because he can disguise them as science and he does so without any actual fact or evidence to back up his claims-this is the problem our society suffers with nowadays when it relies so much on the accepted sciences that anything they say is held as gospel (nice pun, huh?) and observations made by a lowly BibleTeacher are not taken seriously because of his or her religious beliefs.

UPDATE:

This day, March 14, 2018, Dr. Stephen Hawking passed away, which means that for all of his knowlege, all of his accolades, his Nobel Prizes, and his celebrity, he passed from this earth the same way anyone else would and like everyone else he finally got the answer to the ultimate questions of life and death......just like anyone else would.

ARE YOU MENTALLY ILL? SHOULD YOU BE TAKEN OFF THE STREETS?

Limiting Access to Guns for Mentally Ill Is Complicated The New York Times

Gov. Rick Scott of Florida said on Thursday that he would call on state lawmakers and law enforcement authorities to keep firearms away from the mentally ill.

“How do we make sure that individuals with mental illness do not touch a gun?” the Republican governor said at a news conference, taking an unusually strong stance on a gun control issue. Scott Israel, the Broward County, Fla., sheriff, called on lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee to expand police powers by allowing officers to detain people for a mental health evaluation on the basis of worrisome social media posts or “graphic threats.”

And President Trump urged people to report anyone whose behavior seemed disturbed, despite the fact that there is no law on the books in Florida that would let the authorities take people’s guns in that situation. In the aftermath of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., elected and law enforcement officials ramped up their demands for expanded authority over the mentally ill who pose a danger, although some of the officials never mentioned curbing access to guns. In doing so, they stepped into a long and complicated balancing act in the United States between public safety and the right to bear arms for people with mental health issues. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Biblebybennett does not like to waste time or space on a topic which has already been discussed here, so you can read the posting for The almost forgotten already Vegas Shooting to get Biblebybennett's opinion here. But what absolutely MUST be addressed is this ever-growing conversation about qualifying one's mental state to rate them as a potential risk to the public. THAT SHOULD SCARE ANYONE READING THIS because they are really serious about it.

In the State of Florida, for example, there exists a law in which law enforcement can arrest someone on the grounds of suspicion of being a mental health risk and then subject them (against their will) to psychological evaluation! If found mentally ill (by their own definitions) that poor individual will find themselves incarcerated until proven to no longer be a risk to the public. Now how do you prove that? With an entire nation having been taught over decades to rise up and voice themselves, be yourself, be brave, be bold, don't let anyone put you down or push you around, to stand up for your rights. There is nothing in the Bill of Rights that states any of this must be done in accordance with mental health guidlines. And so here is the dilemma with mental illness.

In our long history, there is argument to be made that many historical figures could have been mentally ill, especially many who fought The Revolutionary War against The British, and right up to present day where we see a vast human debris field of soldiers suffering PSTD's. Homosexuality was once considered by The AMA to be a mental illness until forced to change this long-standing medical opinion via public and social demands of the day. Over the past several decades the argument has been made that many in certain Christian religious sects are mentally ill because they believe in a creator God and a guy who rose from the dead. And just this past week, on television, a talk show personality accused the current Vice President of The United States of being mentally ill because he believes that Jesus speaks to him.

To make a long argument short; Are you mentally ill because you sport anger, rage, or even simply disagree with something? Is the person you are sharing a car or a bus with mentally ill? How can you know? Mental illness (as defined by The AMA) used to be a pretty firm definition for physicians to go by but those terms and definitions have been altered over the past 40+ years to accomodate modern trends in society, for example:

A man throwing a brick through someone's window can be excused nowadays due to that man simply expressing his rage. Rioters can be excused for the millions of dollars of damage they cause, the lives they threaten, and the civil disturbance they inflict because they are simply expressing their first amendment rights.

Fact is that any person's mental state is constantly in a state of flux, depending on the way events in their lives unfold, depending on possible chemical or physiological changes takes place, and even depending on heavy spiritual affliction, as described in Biblebybennett's book: Encounter with The Aberdeen Wildman, a true story."

If we use this tragedy (and the many more just like it to come) to justify removing an individual's constitutional rights on the basis ofmental competency, then we begin going down a very slippery slope in which that reasoning shall also lead to individuals also being denied other things as well, such as having children or even practicing their own religion.

UPDATE:

As is the usual with an News Media more concerned with agendas and biases as opposed to actually getting the whole story, seems that this man actually did undergo psychiatric evaluation within the past 2 years and was found competent and capable of owning a firearm. Well, this sure takes the air out of the whole argument doesn't it?

TO REPLACE THE MAN

KFC replaces Colonel Sanders with Claudia Sanders for International Women's Day Fox News

KFC in Malaysia is celebrating International Women’s Day by swapping out Colonel Sanders for his wife Claudia as the face of the company. The fast-food chain debuted the change with a YouTube video explaining Claudia’s role in the company. “Mrs. Sanders played a very important role in the success of KFC. While the Colonel was busy promoting his chicken and running the company, she took orders in the restaurant, mixed the secret blend of herbs and spices, and as you know, in those days there were no courier services, so she had to take the orders to the train station for shipping,” Merrill Pereyra, CEO of QSR Brands, which owns KFC Malaysia, says in the video.

Claudia was the Colonel’s second wife and met him when she worked as a waitress in his first restaurant, Sanders Café, Business Insider reports. She soon began helping him run what would become a successful international fast food chain. ''While he was out selling, I was home doing the work, Claudia recounted in an interview, the Associated Press reports.

Others have recognized Claudia’s contribution to KFC, as is noted in her 1997 obituary by AP. ''We could not have been the company we are now without Claudia's contributions,'' said David Novak, KFC's president and chief executive. While some people recognized the company’s efforts to honor Claudia, others felt as though swapping out the logo for a day doesn’t go far enough in championing women’s rights. (Abbreviated)

ALSO:

McDonald’s Flips Its Golden Arches in Honor of International Women’s Day US Weekly

McDonald’s is proudly supporting International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8, by flipping its iconic golden arches upside down and turning them into a “W.”

Celebrities Who Love Eating Fast Food » For the first time in the brand’s history, the arches were flipped to honor women everywhere, especially those who are part of the McDonald’s family, according to Wendy Lewis, Global Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President of Global Community Engagement for McDonald’s Corporation.

The eatery has partnered with International Women’s Day to support gender parity and to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of women around the world. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Lest anyone noticed this, but last month was "Black History Month" (which should be called "History of white oppression month") But did anyone else notice that the vast majority of persons highlighted were women?

As represented in a previous article posted by Biblebybennett, the motive behind this movement is and has always been to REPLACE THE MAN!

Are you aware of the fact that there also exists a "Men's Rights movement?" You probably would know of its existence if it were not for acompliant major news media devoted to replacing the power and authority structure currently in place which uses this women's rights movement to replace men in positions of power and authority with women (or women's rights supporters) who will promote liberal goals.

IS THERE SOMETHING PARANORMAL ABOUT ALEXA?

Amazon admits that Alexa is making terrifying laughing sounds and promises to make it stop The Independent UK

Amazon has admitted that its Echo devices are emitting horrifying, creepy laughs.

The company has promised to fix the issue with Alexa that is causing the chilling noises to come out of it. But it's not before the problem has caused many people not to be able to get to sleep – and led some to completely unplug their devices out of fear.

Towards the end of February, some Echo owners reported that their devices appeared to start laughing for no reason. The noises would simply come out of the little cylinder, despite not being requested. That served only to terrify some people, who were home alone or operating their Echos at night. Since the voice sounded entirely realistic and often seemed to come without any prompting, some users called the noises "bone chilling" and reported that they had been so creeped out they couldn't sleep....

..The fix suggests that Amazon thinks that people are accidentally triggering the laugh command and hearing the noise come out as a result. Many reported that they had been saying similar things to laugh to the voice assistant before it made the strange noise – with numerous users hearing it after having asked Alexa to change the lights or turn off a lamp, for instance. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: This comes to Biblebybennett's attention for a variety of reasons. Chiefly, we live in a society that is going for broke in its lust to change america into a land where everyone is online and everything about them is online, too. Alexa gives sibscribers the "HAL-Effect", from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, so that their household functions all operate via a voice-interreactive intelligence system.

The other reason is that this unexplained laugh fcoming from the artificial intelligence, Alexa, mimics paranormal experiences many have had with house-hold elctrical goods, especially radios and televisions, a coincidence? Amazon believes that Alexa may be confusing language used by some users, interpreting some speech in such a way to cause it to chuckle and laugh, however, this dosn't explain why it does so while the owner is sleeping.

Hacking is a real possibility, but currently unprovable. Yet, a ton of evidence exists where demonic and sub-par spirit voices and laughs have come across small electronic devices stretching back as far as there has been audio static. This you will never find getting a fair hearing by the scientific community, which continues to avoid matters of the paranormal in favor of the more profitable junk sciences you see today.

ANTHEMS: NEXT TO FALL IN THE PC SCRUBBING OF HISTORY

A bill that advanced Wednesday in the state Senate would not consign “Maryland, My Maryland” to the playlist of history but it does seek to relegate the official state song to B-side status.

Senators narrowly gave preliminary approval to legislation that would re-designate the pro-Confederate anthem as the “historic” state song —putting some distance between modern Maryland and 157-year-old lyrics that refer to Unionists as “Northern scum” and label President Abraham Lincoln a “despot.”

The action came after some Republican senators criticized the move as hollow and mounted a defense of a song many critics see as a racist relic. They say one can separate the inspirational verse from outdated political motivations. Sen. Cheryl Kagan, the bill’s sponsor, defended the measure as a compromise crafted by the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, which has the unenviable task of handling bills dealing with state symbols.

The Montgomery County Democrat’s original bill would have created a selection panel to hold a competition for a replacement for “Maryland, My Maryland,” penned by Southern sympathizer James Ryder Randall in 1861. He wrote the song after what is known as Baltimore’s Pratt Street Riot brought the first bloodshed of the Civil War as rebel sympathizers attacked Union soldiers bound for Washington.

The song, set to the tune of “O Tannenbaum,” exhorts Marylanders to take up the Southern cause and “avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore.”...

...Jennings, who represents Baltimore and Harford counties, noted the recent trend of dismantling Confederate statues and warned that the state flag could be next on the list for abolition. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: The terminology used "trend of dismantling" is quite adequate. This if approved will folllow similar trends taking place all over the world, especially in places like Germany, who even now argue to eliminate certain language from their national anthem because it bespeaks of possible racism, Canada, who recently changed a couple words in their national anthem to become more gender neutral.

Biblebybennett, as a disclaimer, was born and raised in The State of Maryland, grew up listening proudly to Maryland My Maryland, and remember being proud to be from The State of Maryland-never once feeling even a hint of racism involved with it all. Be it a song written in 1861, at the outset of The Civil War, the song's lyrics say different:

The despot's heel is on thy shore,Maryland![a]His torch is at thy temple door,Maryland!Avenge the patriotic goreThat flecked the streets of Baltimore,And be the battle queen of yore,Maryland! My Maryland!

Hark to an exiled son's appeal,Maryland!My mother State! to thee I kneel,Maryland!For life and death, for woe and weal,Thy peerless chivalry reveal,And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,Maryland! My Maryland!

Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain,Maryland!Virginia should not call in vain,Maryland!She meets her sisters on the plain—"Sic semper!" 'tis the proud refrainThat baffles minions back amain,Maryland! My Maryland!

I see the blush upon thy cheek,Maryland!For thou wast ever bravely meek,Maryland!But lo! there surges forth a shriek,From hill to hill, from creek to creek—Potomac calls to Chesapeake,Maryland! My Maryland!

Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll,Maryland!Thou wilt not crook to his control,Maryland!Better the fire upon thee roll,Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,Than crucifixion of the soul,Maryland! My Maryland!

I hear the distant thunder-hum,Maryland!The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum,Maryland!She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb—Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!

Maryland! My Maryland!

Did you read any single thing even remotely racist in those lyrics? Lest anyone sitting in judgment on this matter may recall, during the War of 1812 it was Maryland that met and repulsed the enemy in Fort McHenry and Sparrows Point, and met and fought valliantly at Bladensburg, but the Confederate overlays are what most will always pay most attention to. Maryland did not want war and with The Northern capitol city of DC resting within its borders was in a very unique an unpleasant position as opposed to the other states clammering for war. And you can rest the blame for all of this on the shoulders of Abraham lincoln and The newly constituted Republican Party, which promised abolition if Lincoln was elected and did nothing to appease the southern states from seperating from the union- nothing but threats.

There are different camps on this topic but Biblebybennett is among those who believe that the Civil War could have been avoided if those clammering for a more perfect union in the north would have engineered the available industry at that time to have also benefitted the south so as to not rely on slave labor, but that was not an option. Today, we spread industry all around the country to avoid the weaker and poor states to have to contend with stronger and wealthier states.

Back then, with the rumblings of yet another war (with The State of Virginia in the forefront) , came this call to arms for every Marylander once more! Biblebybennett loves history. Biblebybennett is both sickened and saddend to see history suffer in the hands today of political opportunists who tell people they shall seek change to make a more perfect society but in the process seek to do so by trampling on the very heritage that got us here in the first place.

If one state does actually succeed in removing and replacing their anthem, how long shall it be before our National Anthem ( you know, the one that everybody thinks is too hard to sing and is racist) has to go, too? But even more damaging than this, pay very close attention to what happens with this, it is a trend which shall gain momentum and power-so much so that one day, perhaps in your lifetime, you sill see even scripture changed or discarded so as to not offend the current generation.

DRONES: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES

Will be able to refuel F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler, and F-35C fighters

To compete against craft from Lockheed Martin and General Atomics to win a lucrative US Navy contract worth over $2 billionWinner will produce the MQ-25 'Stingray' craft for the US Navy Boeing's defence arm has unveiled a radical unmanned drone that can refuel fighter jets in mid air.

The small, unnamed craft will be carried on warships and catapulted into the air in the same way fighter jets are. It will be able to refuel the F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler, and F-35C fighters - and means they can stay at the battlefront for far longer.

The aerospace giant's defence arm teased the new craft, covered in a black cloth, on Twitter earlier this week, boasting it will 'change future air power'. Many had believed it was a radical new craft using electric 'hairdryer' to allow it to land and take off vertically - a project Boeing is still believed to be working on.

'Boeing's MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system is completing engine runs before heading to the flight ramp for deck handlingdemonstrations next year,' the aerospace giant said. 'The aircraft is designed to provide the U.S. Navy with refueling capabilities that would extend the combat range of deployed Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Boeing EA-18G Growler, and Lockheed Martin F-35C fighters.

The new craft will compete in a US Navy contest to find a refuelling drone. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett:

"And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Book of Revelation Ch. 9

"Apollyon is the gate-keeper to the abyiss, a place in which wayward and most wretched spirits would have been cast to and held within, but Apollyon is also a spirit whos rerstraining powers are taken away in the final days so the the spirts of his abyiss are now roaming the earth to cause havoc on mankind, this kind of technology would certainly help facilitate this.

50 years ago this would be unheard of, military aircraft and weaponry operated entirely remote control, and having such capabilities. Just imagine the current technology and how it can be improved upon in the next 10-20 years!

ROYAL EXPECTATIONS

THIS GUY......

...IS GOING TO MARRY THIS GIRL....

.....AND IT IS SUPPOSED TO BECOME THIS?

OH, HOW FAR THE ROYALS HAVE FALLEN!

PRINCE HARRY INTERVIEW OBAMA, WHY?

Prince Harry interviews Barack Obama for radio show CNN

Britain's Prince Harry is pulling out all the stops for his upcoming guest editor slot -- complete with a chat with former US President Barack Obama.

The interview recorded at September's Invictus Games in Toronto will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on December 27. In a teaser released Sunday, the pair's longtime bromance was on full display as they traded quips while Harry explained his editorial process.

Without missing a beat, Harry responds "not at all" before warning the former commander-in-chief that he'll get "the face" if there are any long pauses between answers. After Harry displays a mock-stern face, Obama grins before responding: "I don't want to see that face."

Kensington Palace said the conversation focuses on the pair's "shared interest in building platforms for the next generation of young leaders." Obama also reminisced about his memories of leaving office and discussed his post-presidential work with the Obama Foundation, according to the palace...

...Since Obama left the Oval Office, he has met Harry a number of times including stopping into Kensington Palace in May while he was touring Europe. During that meeting, they discussed shared interests around veterans and empowering young people. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

BIBLEBYBENNETT: This is, quite obvious ly, about their mutual love of certain sports, removing any ideas of possible racial aspects, but The Royals have been trying to figure out what to do withy Prince Harry to make him more appealing to the public, so they elevate his puiblic profile by having him seen with other global figure-heads such as Obama. He no longer with with The British military, so he serves no useful purpose there, so there are these attempts at elevating his profile to appear to be in tune with the global society at large, hence the possible reasons for his engagement to Meghan Markle.

Biblebybennett is not like the popular news media which fawns over everything glamorous the Royals do and sees quite clearly how much tradition had been side-stepped to permit the once rowdy and quite embarrassing son of Princess Diana to much improve his image and his status in the global community, the selection of this hollywood actress is one of those great royal traditions which had been overlooked to make this union possible. By the existing royal traditions this girl would not even be considered as a mate for Prince Harry.

We live in a different day and age. tradition is falling by the wayside in favor of new age attitudes and racial plurality, especially on a royal scale, would be a major change to tradition. Do not be surprised to find in the end that this union was made for reasons more socially and racially political rather than to unite to people in love.

Until then it will remain quite the sickening of spectacles to watch people gush over this royal union as if it is in the same desirable traditions as times past, because we are clearly joining to peopole together in matrimony who are little more than a humiliation to the crown.

THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTING: TERRORISM OR MASS MURDER, AND WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

Las Vegas shooting: What we know about what happened at Mandalay Bay USA Today

A gunman opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 near the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. Here is what we know:

Who was the shooter?

Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nev., was named by police as the shooter....

Did the shooter have any accomplices?

"Right now, we believe it's a sole actor, a lone-wolf-type actor," said Lombardo, adding that a motive for the shooting had yet to be determined....

Was this an act of terrorism?

At a press conference, Aaron Rouse, chief of the FBI’s Las Vegas office, said the agency had found "no connection" between Paddock and terror organizations. Earlier, Sheriff Lombardo described Paddock as "a distraught person" intent on causing mass casualties. The Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility, saying that the perpetrator was “a soldier” who had converted to Islam months ago. However, the group, which often claims attacks by individuals inspired by its message but with no known links to the group, provided no evidence to support its assertion....

...What weapons were found?

According to police, the gunman fired from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, which overlooks the venue. At least 23 weapons were found in his hotel room, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said. Authorities also searched Paddock's home and found even more weapons — 19 firearms, explosives and unidentified electronic devices as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition.

How was the gunman able to fire so rapidly?

While witnesses reported fast shooting, the pattern and inconsistent rate of gunfire signaled to experts that the weapons might have been semiautomatic, which require a separate trigger pull for each round, rather than an automatic that would continue to fire while the trigger was depressed. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Late-night comics decried the Las Vegas mass shooting as a confounding and repetitive American tragedy, with Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah lashing out at politicians who oppose gun control.

"I don't know why our so-called leaders continue to allow this to happen," Kimmel said on his ABC show Monday, the day after the worst shooting in modern U.S. history claimed at least 59 lives.

"Or maybe a better question — why do we continue to let them allow it to happen?" said an emotional Kimmel, who noted that Las Vegas was his hometown. He slammed Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, saying it was good they sent prayers to Las Vegas but "they should be praying to God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country." (Abbreviated)

Hillary Clinton on Monday criticized Republicans and the National Rifle Association for stopping gun control policies, speaking out after a gunman killed 59 people at a music festival in Las Vegas.

When asked in an interview with the Center for American Progress' Thinking CAP podcast whether Republicans and the NRA are complicit in an epidemic of gun violence, Clinton said "of course they are."..

...Clinton criticized the Trump administration, for example, for repealing an Obama-era regulation that stopped certain people with a background of mental illness from obtaining firearms. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: Well, it sure didn't long for political enthusiasts to turn a tragedy into an opportunity, did it? And there explains the very nature of The United States of America, we are more concerned with our politics and power than having any natural affection for our fellow man.

Biblebybennett had grown accustomed to following certain news and entertainment outlets for commentary and reaction because they are actually fronts for political groups and have certain scripts they must adhere to. For example, The ABC Network (Disney) has a slew of political operatives who do most of the script-writing for shows such as The Vew, Jimmy Kimmel, etc., so when these people speak on air it is not necessarily their words you are heaing but come from a political group.

Asking Hillary Clinton her opinion about this incident is no better than asking: "Do you have any attack messages you want to put out against the guy you lost the election to today?" Why bother, you already know that her ilk and kin will always swing towards using events such as this to further restrict citizen's rights in this country, hence, gun control.

Biblebybennett wants to offer clarity in this matter:

"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."

Book of Matthew Ch. 15

"And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Book of Mark Ch. 7

I included two version of the same speech made by Jesus to provide greater context as to why man is murderous....it is the nature of sin. This is what mankind is, murderous, and murderous for the sake of murder itself or the joy of killing, but is a symptom of all of these other characteristsics inherent in sinful mankind. This man, who seemed to be living a better life than most could, killed not because je wanted to incite fear in others (terrorism) but because hw wanted to exit this world in grand faqshion and with no respect or affection or sympathy for life itself, especially his own.

This is a mass murder, not an act of terror.

We, as a nation, did not ask for horriffic events such as these because we are a nation prolific with guns, because we are a nation that made killing morally easy. We have removed the component of guilt, for the most part, from killing. Do we not have one television program after another, or film, that makes killing seem quick, easy, and without remorse? We live in the age of The Anti-hero. We cloak them in deeds of what seems to be the right side of the law but actually are heroic for breaking or avoiding laws to get at The Villan. When we removed the cowboy in the white hat, when we did away with "good guys vs. bad guys", and showed sympathy for the Villan, that is when America bewcame a place where murder became more justified.

It is entertaining to watch the various news programs and political hacks debate how tro prevent events such as this with laws or gun control, but never is ther the discussion about returning to enforcing our understanding of good guys vs bad guys or even to teach people to value human life. Human life is disposable so long as it is not your, huh? In the movies and on TV, people get killed by the hundreds each week. Maybe they will go for the gross factor and show corpses on a slab or the gross medical program that likes to show a human body being cut up like a side of beef, but they usually show someone being killed and not seen anymore, removing the human factor of the event. but the man who did this defies all the social norms as to what we expect a killer to be, so now it is entertaing to watch them look for answers. The answer is in the mirror.

Why did this act of mass murder happen? because America made itself a nation where life is not respected, life is not appreciated (unless it is your own), and life is intolerable and not worth living. this amn went out because he wanted to die and wanted to do so in grand fashion-taking as many people with him as he can.

THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO CLEANSE THE EARTH, WHY?

Statues and streets named after controversial figures in Canada Global News CA

In the wake of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., monuments and signs that mark the U.S. Confederacy and its soldiers are being torn down.

It’s a controversial topic, as many believe these statues represent America’s pro-slavery movement, while others, including U.S. President Donald Trump, say they should remain intact as they are an important part of history. In late August, Montreal’s city council will vote on a few new names for a city street and park. It intends to rename Alexis-Carrel Avenue after Italian Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, known for her work in neurobiology.

Controversy: Cornwallis issued an order dubbed the “Scalping Proclamation” in October 1749, in response to an attack on colonists, which paid out a government-funded bounty to anyone who killed a Mi’kmaq adult or child. The death toll of the attacks that occurred is not known, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia, but dozens of people claimed rewards. There have been several calls to remove Cornwallis’ statue, which was erected in the 1930s. The statue is routinely vandalized and was recently painted with the message ‘F*** 150’ as Canada celebrated its birthday in July. (Abbreviated)

A bronze statue of George Washington on horseback stands at the corner of 51st and King Drive, at the northwest entrance to Washington Park.

Bishop James Dukes, pastor of Liberation Christian Center, said he wants the statue gone, and he wants George Washington’s name removed from the park.

“When I see that, I see a person who fought for the liberties, and I see people that fought for the justice and freedom of white America, because at that moment, we were still chattel slavery, and was three-fifths of humans,” he said. “Some people out here ask me, say ‘Well, you know, he taught his slaves to read.’ That’s almost sad; the equivalent of someone who kidnaps you, that you gave them something to eat.”

Dukes said, even though Washington was the nation’s first president and led the American army in the Revolutionary War, he’s no hero to the black community.

“There’s no way plausible that we would even think that they would erect a Malcolm X statue in Mount Greenwood, Lincoln Park, or any of that. Not that say Malcolm X was a bad guy; they just would not go for it,” he said. “Native Americans would not even think about putting up a Custer statue, because of the atrocities that he plagued upon Native Americans. And for them to say to us ‘just accept it’ is actually insulting.”...

...He said parks, statues, or other monuments honoring Presidents Washington and Jackson might be appropriate elsewhere, but not in black neighborhoods. “In an African-American community, it’s a slap in the face and it’s a disgrace for them to honor someone who was a slave owner. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: Quick note; Did President Donald Trump not state in his latest speech on The Charlottesville matter and statue removal, "Who's next, Washington?" Our President was right on his predictions, but The Compliant Major News Media ignored this and continued its attacks. But also.....

If this theater company thought their patrons wouldn't give a damn, they were wrong. A historic Memphis, Tennessee, theater, which has shown "Gone With the Wind" screenings for 34 years, has decided to remove the classic film from its schedule due to its racially "insensitive" content.

The move comes after violence erupted at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month. The president of the Orpheum Theatre said the decision to remove the 1939 film was not directly related to the recent headlines.

"The Orpheum appreciates feedback on its programming from all members of the mid-south community," Orpheum president Bret Batterson said in a statement to Vulture. "As an organization whose stated mission is to 'entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,' the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population."

His statement continued, "This is something that's been questioned every year, but the social media storm this year really brought it home...

...Many people called for a boycott on the theater's Facebook page. "Gone With The Wind" won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. Hattie McDaniel, who played "Mammy" was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Someone vandalized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, covering an individual's name with a waxy, red substance, according to the National Park Service. The substance, which appeared to be crayon or lipstick, was discovered over one name on the east wall about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. The National Park Service successfully removed the substance with water and a mild detergent/degreaser.

U.S. Park Police are investigating the marking as vandalism, the Park Service said, but it doesn't appear to be connected to any other recent cases of vandalism on the National Mall. (Abbreviated)

Parents are concerned after a California Catholic school has removed several religious statues from its campus in an effort to be more inclusive of other faiths.

San Domenico School in San Anselmo, California removed several religious statues from display on campus, donating some and relocating others to storage. Many parents and members of the school community expressed worry that this could signify an erasure of the school’s Catholic identity. Shannon Fitzpatrick, whose 8 year-old son attends the school, voiced her objections to the removal of the statues to the school’s board of directors, according to the Marin Independent Journal.

“Articulating an inclusive foundation appears to mean letting go of San Domenico’s 167-year tradition as a Dominican Catholic school and being both afraid and ashamed to celebrate one’s heritage and beliefs,” she said. Cheryl Newell, who had four children graduate from the school, echoed concerns that attempts to be inclusive were actually erasing the school’s identity. (Abbreviated)

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University to remove cross and Bibles from campus chapel Fox News

East Central University said they will remove crosses, Bibles and other religious symbols from a campus chapel to appease a bunch of out-of-town agitators.

It’s unclear when the Oklahoma school will commence with the Christian cleansing of the Kathryn P. Boswell Memorial Chapel. The chapel opened in 1957. “We will continue to use the building as we always have, for all faiths,” ECU President Katricia Pierson said in a statement to the Ada News. “We do not want to presume to embrace one faith over another. We support all cultures and attempt to make them comfortable when they are here.”

The university’s president went on to say they are “looking at the feasibility of removing the cross on the steeple, but need to respond to the request for removal of religious icons from the chapel.” “We are exploring options for preserving the items,” she said. So on the bright side, it appears East Central University will not burn the Bibles or toss the crosses into a wood chipper.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is responsible for the Christian cleansing at ECU. They fired off a terse letter accusing the school of displaying “religious iconography.” That letter was obtained by the Ada News. “These displays include Latin crosses on the top of and inside the building, Bibles and a Christian altar,” the letter stated. “While it is legal for a public university to have a space that can be used by students for religious worship so long as that space is not dedicated solely to that purpose, it is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to display religious iconography on government property.” (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: It has been long argued from Biblebybennett that all of this controversy of the removal of Confederate is simply a gateway to their primary target, the one the forces of Anti-Christ had wanted all along, the compete removal of any Christian references, including crosses, ten commandments, images of Christ, etc.

Just as in law, these anti-christian activists have been successful at removeing one piece of Christian memoriabilia because it uses a precident, or a smaller act of the same kind that can be interpreted by courts to condone larger actions of the same kind. This is exactly what the anti-christian forces in the world have been doing is systematically using the courts to aid them in forcing the removal of Christian articles and observances a piece at a time and is all being done in the names of civil rights and religious liberties.

But have you also noticed how the Catholic Church is being spared any of this treatment? biblebybennett had long noticed that The Holy Roman Catholic Church, with it's politically correct activist Pope in charge, has not suffered any of the same treatemnt as have colleges, Christian churches, The U.S. Military, and so forth, why? (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett:

"Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

Book of Mark Ch. 8

The Spirit of Anti-Christ moves today within all mankind. Because of this we see social movements by these new generations taking offense with the past and appeasing themselves by attacking the past-in any manner possible to them. But this is simply a staging for the next bg appeasement, the next big erasure of an offense, and that is the Christian religion, Jesus, and especially scripture.

Even as The complaint Major News Media follows this removal of confederate monuments with all support and upholding to the cause they turn a blind eye to the fact that, piece-by-piece, Christian sybols, monuments, crosses, and bibles are being systematically erased from the american landscape.

This is why this movement is happening, this is why the news media is so onboard with getting Confederate monuments removed and why they take sides in racial issues...the ultimate goal is the complete removal of all Christian messages and especially the removal of the person of Jesus Christ.

LOOK FOR THIS ....IT WILL HAPPEN!

PAYPAL BECOMES THE RACIST BULLY

Cutting off white supremacists: Apple Pay, Cloudflare and PayPal join the trend The Los Angeles Times

Apple, Cloudflare and PayPal have joined the parade of companies cutting off services to white nationalists after an anti-racist counter-protester was killed and others were injured in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.

In statements circulated among employees and published online, the companies condemned hate groups and distanced themselves from President Trump’s assertions that some “very fine people” were among the torch-carrying white supremacists in Charlottesville and that “both sides” were to blame for the violence.

The moves come as corporations scramble to erase any perception that they condone white supremacists, at least partly motivated by fear of tarnishing their brands. “We must not witness or permit such hate and bigotry in our country, and we must be unequivocal about it,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a Wednesday memo to employees that was posted on BuzzFeed. “This is not about the left or the right, conservative or liberal. It is about human decency and morality. I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.”

The company also disabled Apple Pay support to several websites selling apparel with white nationalist and Nazi themes.

Cloudflare — a Web security provider whose services shield sites from cyberattacks — has prided itself on its neutrality and unwavering commitment to free speech, standing firm in 2013 when it was accused of supporting terrorism because it provided services to a Chechen news site.

But events of the past week proved too much for the tech firm, and it terminated the account of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. (It was the third blow for the site: GoDaddy and then Google canceled the Daily Stormer’s domain earlier in the week after the site mocked Heather Heyer, the counter-protester who was killed in Charlottesville.) Cloudflare’s CEO, Matthew Prince, said Cloudflare’s terms of service gave it the right to terminate users at its sole discretion, and “I’d had enough.”

He wrote in a blog post that the tipping point was when the Daily Stormer “made the claim that we [Cloudflare] were secretly supporters of their ideology. … We could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support.” Prince’s reasoning was personal — he said in an email to employees that the decision was his alone — but in recent days, other tech companies have booted white supremacists from their services, citing violations of their terms of use policies. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: This is exactly what you get when you allow corporations to get complete control over services to the masses, they get to arbitrarily decide to who and when to give services to. This is why The Federal Government broke up the Bell Telephone Company in the 1970's because The Bell Company was controlling the market and dictating terms of use to the entire nation.

Paypal and Apple are being very selective here, as it was just recently disclosed that The Feds themselves broke up a terror ring which was using Paypal, bitcoin, and even Ebay to move money around, Paypal was OK with terrorist groups using their services but become judgmental when it comes to racism. And that's what this is, racism. Paypal, Apple, and these others are making these decision based on white supremacy, which they themselves decided is a bad thing, worst than terrorists, that it is a white cause, and then made a decision to interrupt whites use of their services based on this....is this not the definition of racism?

Biblebybennett sounds this warning to you because if corporate entities such as Paypal, Apple, etc. who control major amounts of how money and speech are conducted in the world, are permitted to stiffle white supremecists based on racism then what s to stop them later from deeming Christianity racist? What is to stop them from deeming YOU racist?

THE END TO COVERT MILITARY SUPPORT IN SYRIA

Report: Trump ending secret CIA program to arm Syrian rebels CBS News

President Trump is ending a covert CIA operation to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad, something Russia has long desired, according to a Wednesday report in the Washington Post.

The Obama administration introduced the operation in 2013, as a part of its efforts to push Assad out of power, and its effectiveness has come into question even among its backers. But the timing of the decision raises questions for the White House, as it fends off accusations that the president and his team obscured his interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month.

On Tuesday, the White House admitted the president had a previously undisclosed discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin over dinner at the G-20. White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday declined to tell reporters during a briefing what Putin and Mr. Trump discussed. The White House is also working to explain the growing list of attendees at the June 2016 meeting Donald Trump Jr. held with a Russian lawyer and others at Trump Tower.

Russia has been critical of U.S. efforts to punish Assad, particularly after the deadly chemical attack Assad carried out on his own people in April. Mr. Trump retaliated against that attack by ordering a missile launch on a Syrian airbase. Mr. Trump struck a deal with Russia at the G-20 summit on a ceasefire in southwest Syria. Mr. Trump said the deal was a benefit of working with Moscow. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Dial back in time through all of the availbale news coverage provided since the first mention of the so-called "Syrian Freedom Fighters" and you will not find any admission of The United State's involvement or CIA backing of them until its final days of their campaign against Assad. once it was determined that these freedom fighters could easily be ISIS, and that they were entrenching themselves inside hospitals, schools and neighborhood to avoid enemy fire, then the revealing truth finally started to come out.

The Compliant major News Media were totally in the tank for Barak Hussein Obama and spent months with breathless newsbreaks and horriffic images of the fighting there and finding especially women and children suffering to show to western audiences to create uproar against Assad. They do not admit defeat or mistakes, so this will die quietly.

Free Syrian Army envoys have urged U.S. officials at talks in Washington to resume a suspended CIA program of military aid if it is serious about challenging growing Iranian influence in Syria, according to Syrian opposition figures.

Mustafa Sejari, a senior official in Syria’s mainstream rebel group, said the envoys described to U.S. officials the damaging impact of President Donald Trump’s decision last year to stop equipping and training certain rebel groups. Trump’s move was driven by a wish to focus on fighting Islamic State militants and to improve relations with Russia, as well as a lack of results from the CIA’s support of the FSA, U.S. officials suggested. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Bear in mind that this is happening in the midst of a Compliant Major News Media pulling out all the stops to link President Trump to possible collusion with The Russian government to affect the elections. How ironic they decide to not shed any light on the fact that whispers of US militarily backing The Syrian rebels were not only true, and that our country colluded with Syrian Rebels to remove a sitting global leader from power, but that they came to DC looking for more.

AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT: THE OBAMA'S LIVING LARGE AT YOUR EXPENSE

Obama's 2018 expenses will cost US taxpayers $1.1M: memo Fox News

Former President Barack Obama will cost taxpayers $1,153,000 next year, according to a Congressional Research Service memo.

That amount will make Obama's expenses the highest of the five living ex-presidents, the Washington Times reported. The Former Presidents Act, which became law in 1958, provides former White House occupants with lifetime benefits after leaving office. Each ex-president receives a base pension of $205,700 annually, but the budget requests they submit to Congress may also address additional expenses, such as for staff salaries, office allowances, travel and Secret Service protection.

Obama’s $1,153,00 budget request for 2018 is nearly $100,000 more than that of former President George W. Bush, and around $200,000 higher than for former President Bill Clinton. Former President George H.W. Bush has requested $942,000, while former President Jimmy Carter comes in at $456,000, the Times reported.

A large portion of the former presidents’ budgets go toward leasing office space, such as the $536,000 cost for Obama’s office in Washington, $518,000 for Clinton’s setup in New York City, and $497,000 for Bush 43's office in Dallas. (Abbreviated)

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Thigh's the limit! Barefoot Michelle Obama shows off a lot of leg in a wrap skirt as she relaxes on a yacht in Mallorca -

after covering up in a dark hat and hoodie to work out in the blazing sun The UK Daily Mail

The former First Lady, 53, stepped out for a hike on the island of Mallorca, Spain, on ThursdayCovered up in a black hood and shades as she made her way around the island with members of her staffMichelle is visiting the American diplomat James Costos and his partner, Michael SmithOn Friday she was seen stepping onto a yacht in the Spanish island wearing a crop top and a wrap skirtChanged into different clothes that same day and was spotted in a black outfit leaving a restaurantHer husband, former President Barack Obama, is not thought to have accompanied her on the trip

Michelle Obama looked ever the A-lister as she stepped out for a workout and a yacht trip in Mallorca, Spain.

The former First Lady, 53, shielded herself from the sun with shades and a black hood to enjoy a hike around the island on Thursday.

She was surrounded by members of her staff tagging along for the sweat session, with members of her security team flanking her. Michelle is in Mallorca to visit American diplomat James Costos and his partner, Michael Smith.

Her husband, former President Barack Obama, does not appear to have accompanied her on the international trip.

The day after her hike, Michelle boarded a yacht, wearing a white crop top and a stylish wrap skirt with a bird pattern, letting the fabric flow to show her toned legs. She accessorized her outfit with a straw bag from Madewell, giving the outfit a chic beachy wibe. Michelle was seen aboard the yacht later in the evening on Friday, enjoying time with a group of friends.

At one point on Friday, she changed into different clothes, and was spotted wearing a black outfit and a hat while leaving a restaurant. Both she and her husband will have a Secret Service detail for the rest of their lives, Barack having restored lifetime protection for former presidents in 2013. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Well now, isn't that nice how BHO provided for himself after his 2nd term as president ended?

ALSO:

Final Obama travel tab: $100 million

The Washington Examiner (May 2017)

The final tab for former President Obama's eight years of family travel to ski resorts, beaches and European cities has finally come in and the bill is $99,714,527.82.

Judicial Watch, the taxpayer watchdog group that has shifted its attention to President Trump's travel costs, said it just received some of the last responses to Obama-era Freedom of Information Act requests for trip costs from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Secret Service.

They show:

— The March 2014 trip to Key Largo during Spring Break – where the first family stayed at the exclusive Ocean Reef Club – cost the Secret Service $247,827.50; $182,120.33 for hotels and $65,707.17 in travel expenses. The total cost of that trip with previously released $885,683 in flight costs from the Air Force is $1,133,510.50.

— Michelle Obama's February 2015 Aspen vacation cost the Secret Service a total of $64,807.41; $47,109.28 for hotels, $3,559.43 in rental cars and $14,138.70 in other travel expenses. The total cost of the trip with $57,068.80 in flight costs from previously released Air Force records is $121,876.21.

— Judicial Watch released documents from the Air Force concerning the 2016-2017 Obama family Christmas trip to Honolulu showing 17.9 hours flying at $142,380 per hour, bringing the total flight cost to $2,548,602. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Here's a fair question to ask: Who is paying for all of this? Turns out that you are! Since leaving the White House, former President Barak Hussein Obama has appeared at fundraisers and political events all over the world, has been traveling around making political speeches to undermine Trump, has been vacationing in some of the most exotic lands on the planet-all on a presidential pension of just a little over 208k a year.

But what if the trips are for political purposes, as was Obama's mostecent appearance Germany a day ahead of Trumps meeting with Merkel?These trips are on the taxpayer's dime, not Obama's, Obama has no income because his books, sure as heck, aren't selling. He can make some monen speaking fees, as Hillary and Bill Clinton do, but that certainly fllas short of paying these bills.

One of the reasons as to why the once powerful seem to be so lofty is by design. It has been long established that the average person both admires and desires those who seem affluent and rich, so to preserve the image of the once powerful Barak Hussein obama he and his wife are to appear as affluent, influential, and wealthy even though they have nothing. this will serve other power-players in international politics to attract and keep the minds and even the hearts of the black communitis globally, this because Barak Hussein obama's election and his lack-luster presidency was a global feat they would like see again.

HOW A PSYCHIC MEDIUM FALLS

What 'Crossing Over' medium John Edward is up to nowFox news

John Edward captivated audiences globally with his hit TV show "Crossing Over" and now helps celebrities like Oprah and Kim Kardashian communicate with the dead. News.com.au sat down with the 47-year-old to find out more about his astonishing career. From his skeptic origins and celebrity clientele, to his scariest encounter — read on for everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous medium:

....“It’s kind of like a psychic sign language,” he explains. “It’s similar to the way photos used to be developed. The film is taken into a dark room to develop and as that photo starts to appear you can kind of see what that picture is going to be. That’s what I feel like I’m seeing. I’m watching something develop and I’m trying to figure out what it is.”

He doesn’t ‘see’ ghosts. While Hollywood takes a "Sixth Sense" approach to mediumship, John is clear that full bodied apparitions and ghoulish, bloodied spectres aren’t something he’s ever seen.

“Not for me!” he says, smiling. “ I have more of a ‘psychic pulse’ — a feeling or seeing a symbol. It’s not like a spirit says to me: ‘hey John, tell them this.’“Some mediums claim to see full body aspirations, but if they say, ‘I see your Dad here,’ I’d be expecting a full on description. How tall is he? What does he weigh? How old is he? I want details. I call it lazy mediumship. If a medium says that and doesn’t include details and validations that make people not be able to poke holes in it, then I call bulls---t!”....

...Despite talking to the dead for more than three decades, when probed about frightening experiences there’s only one example that really had an impact on the world famous medium. After visiting his cousin’s new house in the late '80s, John was left shook up by a series of unexplained incidents.

“The first time I visited I was in the downstairs bathroom and literally had performance anxiety!” he remembers. “I felt like I had four people watching me and all of them wanted me to leave. John Edward captivated audiences globally with his hit TV show "Crossing Over" and now helps celebrities like Oprah and Kim Kardashian communicate with the dead. News.com.au sat down with the 47-year-old to find out more about his astonishing career. From his skeptic origins and celebrity clientele, to his scariest encounter — read on for everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous medium: His psychic process is a bit like solving a puzzle Rather than a straightforward message or vision, instead John says he’ll be given “words, thoughts, images and feelings” that he has to then in turn piece together.

“It’s kind of like a psychic sign language,” he explains. “It’s similar to the way photos used to be developed. The film is taken into a dark room to develop and as that photo starts to appear you can kind of see what that picture is going to be. That’s what I feel like I’m seeing. I’m watching something develop and I’m trying to figure out what it is.”

He doesn’t ‘see’ ghosts While Hollywood takes a "Sixth Sense" approach to mediumship, John is clear that full bodied apparitions and ghoulish, bloodied spectres aren’t something he’s ever seen.

“Not for me!” he says, smiling. “I have more of a ‘psychic pulse’ — a feeling or seeing a symbol. It’s not like a spirit says to me: ‘hey John, tell them this.’

“Some mediums claim to see full body aspirations, but if they say, ‘I see your Dad here,’ I’d be expecting a full on description. How tall is he? What does he weigh? How old is he? I want details. I call it lazy mediumship. If a medium says that and doesn’t include details and validations that make people not be able to poke holes in it, then I call bulls---t!”

John was actually a hardened skeptic. The son of a cynical New York policeman, while his mother’s side of the family dabbled in the psychic world, he was brought up by his father to avoid it at all costs.

“It was a rule to make sure I wasn’t around it,” recalls John. “As a result, I kind of adopted my father’s very Alpha male condescending, sarcastic manner towards it. I was the biggest skeptic!”

But this all changed when he received his first psychic reading at the age of 15. After his parents separated, a teenage John and his mother moved into his grandmother’s house where seances and readings were commonplace. And during one of these sessions, an encounter with a psychic called Lydia Clar, would change his life forever.

“She took my high school ring and performed psychometry (reading the energy of an object) and gave me information that she could not have known — stuff that if my mom knew, I’d have gotten my a-- kicked!” Not only did she know uncanny details about his private life, she also told a 15-year-old John that he had psychic abilities of his own.

“‘You have highly evolved beams of white and gold light around you and I’m going to put you on your path,’ she said to me. Quite honestly, I thought she was insane, but it was clear she wasn’t performing and she took herself seriously. It made me stand up and pay attention.”

He never set out to be famous. After working for years in public health as a phlebotomist, (someone who’s trained to draw blood from patients for medical testing) he committed to being a medium full-time in 1995.

“I never woke up and decided: ‘I’m going to be a world famous medium’,” says John. “And I never wanted to be on TV, it was an opportunity that came as a byproduct of my work.” Fronting his TV show stressed him out.

“When people tell me how great 'Crossing Over' was and how much it helped them, I can look back and realize what an amazing experience it was — in hindsight!” says John.

“But at the time I felt like I held my breath for four years. It was such a stressful experience, because I felt like I had the entire psychic community on my shoulders. I was attacked like you can’t even imagine. Death threats, accusations … it was insane.”

Kim Kardashian is a fan Kim Kardashian has consulted with John on and off for years. Back in 2012, during an episode of spin-off series "Kourtney and Kim Take New York," she and her sister met with him in person to try and communicate with their late father Robert. Kim later cited the session as helping her come to the decision to divorce second husband, Kris Humphries. And more recently she made a beeline for the medium during her attempts to become pregnant, later crediting his tips with helping her conceive Saint West — “He gives the best advice,” said Kim.

Of the reality star, John says: “I think Kim is a very special person with an amazing heart and an amazing energy. She’s been very generous and kind when she has spoken about me in the past, but that was the past … I don’t have an ongoing relationship in that sense.

“I don’t love the world of celebrity to be honest,” he says matter-a-factly. “Even when I did 'Crossing Over' they wanted to go down the celebrity route … I have celebrity clientele, but the celebrities I read know I’m never going to talk about them, which is why they come to me. They get me, they get who I am and what I do and they trust me.”

He’s only had one really scary encounter in his lifetime Despite talking to the dead for more than three decades, when probed about frightening experiences there’s only one example that really had an impact on the world famous medium. After visiting his cousin’s new house in the late '80s, John was left shook up by a series of unexplained incidents.

“The first time I visited I was in the downstairs bathroom and literally had performance anxiety!” he remembers. “I felt like I had four people watching me and all of them wanted me to leave.

“Weird stuff happened there and on my last visit, I was alone sitting down near the fireplace and looking at a battery-operated musical clown ornament. I picked it up — saw that there were no batteries in it — and put it down. Seconds later it started to play music! I left and never returned.” (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: In Biblebybennett's book: "Encounter with The Aberdeen Wildman, A true story" is addressed the subject of psychics and mediums. While traveling the country Biblebybennett has met many claiming to be psychic and somewhat clarvoyant. As stated in the book, at no time are these claims discounted nor are they dismissed as fake or fantasy, but Biblebybennett asserts that people born into this world with these kinds of abilities are decieved as to the source of the information or the feelings they are recieveing, unless it has somehow become possible to check a ghost's ID.

As has been proven in numerous past case histories, spirits have exibited the ability and the desire to trick and decive the living by both appearing as or speaking as departed loved ones, actually being able to impersonate both the living and the dead, so how is it possible that what psychic mediums hear and feel from the same spirits cannot possibly be a decpetion?

Taking the words of what spirits claim to be in contact with as gospel is a mistake, but then to be in practive of delivering it to emotionally or mentally disdrought people seeking signs or a connection with a dearly departed loved ones is a crime, as it serves to decieve. Spirits are actually using psychjic mediums as yet another pathway to decive the living, and how much money changes hands for this practice? this is not some new gimmick, it has been going on for many centuries.

As the book attests: same gimmick, same spirits, same deception.

What else should be pointed out though is the fact that what happened with edwards, this progression of romantic communication and working with the dead evolving into a threatening envirornment. This is a common fate of many a psychic medium as some have tried to seperate themselves from the dead and make a clean break of the relationship but find that the dead do not want to let go so easily, and show their power over a psychic by actually harrassing them and bullying them.

The life for those born into this world is a tough one. Once decided to make using the gifts of a psychic medium a lifestyle they are essentially married to it, for better or worse. This is necromancy, and in necromancy, it is the dead who control the relationship.

CAN YOU SEE GHOSTS?

Creative people physically see the world differently and notice things that others miss - including GHOSTS

The UK Daily Mail

Open personalities are creative, curious and keen to explore new thingsPeople with open personalities perceive the world in a different way to othersThey can process more visual information and combine it in a unique wayBut people who are extremely 'open' are paranoid and more likely to 'see ghosts'

Creative people really do see the world differently, new research has found.

People who are artistic and adventurous can process more visual information than others and notice things that many miss. However, this 'open'personality trait can also cause people to be paranoid and delusional. Scientists believe there are five main personality traits, including openness, extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness.

Open personalities are creative, curious and keen to explore new things. Researchers have now discovered that open people may actually 'see' more possibilities. 'They seem to have a more flexible gate for the visual information that breaks through into their consciousness,' Dr Anna Antinori, from the University of Melbourne, told New Scientist...

..The researchers found that people with open personalities were more likely to have a mixed perception. But people with the other personality traits were not likely to have mixed perception. 'When you present open people with the binocular rivalry dilemma, their brains are able to flexibly engage with less conventional solutions,' Dr Antinori said.

'We believe this is the first empirical evidence that they have different visual experiences to the average individual.' The study's results may explain why open people are more creative.

'At those levels of openness, people may actually see reality differently,' he said. 'For example, they may "see" spirits, or misinterpret interpersonal or other signals.' Dr Antinori added that those who have taken hallucinogenic drugs such as magic mushrooms perform similarly in visual tasks to those with high levels of openness.

A hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms, including psilocybin, is known to make people with other personality types appear to be more 'open'. Dr Antinori's future research will investigate the neural processes involved in mixed perception and having a creative mindset. 'It seems that openness alters the filter of consciousness, and we'd like to know how,' she said.

The findings were published in the Journal of Research in Personality.

Biblebybennett: "It's all in your head." "It's just your imagination." remember all of those catchy lines skeptics use to explain away experiences which arebelieved to be paranormal in nature?

This study wants to make it appear that people with minds which are open to possibilities or external influences would be more likely to see paranormal apparitions as opposed to those who are less creative. Problem, there are way too many documented cases within the paranormal field to support this.

As detailed in the book: "Encounter with The Aberdeen Wildman, A true story" it is well documented how so many people from all walks of life, from all faiths,from all professions, from all mentalities and education levels, each have encountered either a spiritual apparition, a poltergeist, sasquatch, or an extra-terrestrial in their lifetimes- creativity has had absolutely nothing to do with it.

HOW TRUMP MASTERFULLY MANIPULATES THE NEWS MEDIA

A man who is tragically unfit to be president

CNN

When President Donald Trump revealed that he doesn't know why the Civil War was fought, or at least figures it could have been averted by the kind of deal-making he supposedly excels at, it was revealing in ways beyond the ones easy to glean.

The ignorance is, as usual, stunning for someone in the public spotlight. "People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?" Trump asks rhetorically, which is like saying no one has bothered to study anatomy or physics.

Yet this sort of thing should no longer surprise us from this man. He doesn't read and lacks curiosity, but that's hardly rare among human beings. A college teacher friend of mine the other day noted that no one in his class could name who was president in the 1980s, nor, upon being told who it was, could they name his political party. People like this don't mysteriously develop an interest in civics after college. Sometimes they become president. (Abbreviated)

ALSO:

Smoke and mirrors: how Trump manipulates the media and opponents

The UK Guardian

Donald Trump has been called a “master media manipulator” by the New York Times, a “genius” tactician by Kanye West and a “master wizard” of persuasion bythe creator of Dilbert. Whether or not that is the case, there are certain patterns of language and action the president-elect uses to try to dominate the media, win political debates, and intimidate enemies. Here the Guardian examines some of them.

Trump has repeatedly trotted out props and friends to create the appearance that he has support for his claims, even though the props are often meaningless and the friends say little to bolster his case. At his long-awaited press conference last week, for instance, staff stacked manila folders next to the lectern at Trump Tower. The folders were stuffed with papers that Trump said were “some of the many documents” in which he had signed over control of his company to his sons. His aides, however, refused to let anyone see the papers....

...Trump sometimes says nothing while creating the appearance of a statement, littering sentences with inflated adjectives, muddled grammar and digressiveclauses that derail whatever meaning his sentence started out with. Leaving such words open to interpretation, he can please white supremacists who hear dog whistles, insist that critics “misunderstand” him, and contradict himself endlessly...

...Trump has attacked traditional news organizations at an opportune moment. Drained of advertising money by the internet, newsrooms lack staff and resources to investigate and document his actions and their reach is fractured by social media and tech giants that have replaced them. Regardless of Trump’s intentions, though, whenever he picks a fight with a celebrity, it can distract people from his administration’s actions. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

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The Master of Manipulation

US News (November 2015)

The press keeps taking Donald Trump's bait – and all the free coverage is keeping his campaign afloat

...What was true in 2004 is true today because Donald Trump is still working from the same playbook. Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of theDeal:"

"One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better … If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you."

Fast forward to the 2016 race: Trump accounts for 43 percent of all GOP coverage on network news so far this year, according to a broadcast analysis by the Tyndall Report. In fact, Trump has dominated the campaign coverage on ABC, NBC and CBS evening news broadcasts, nearly double the number of minutes as Hillary Clinton and more than three times as much as Jeb Bush. In August alone, Trump got almost twice as much airtime on the network evening news broadcasts as all other GOP candidates combined.

When Trump insults war heroes, women, immigrants, his fellow candidates, Congress, members of the media – the list goes on and on – those are not one-offspontaneous outbursts where Trump is just popping off. Those are carefully planned "outrageous," "sensational" stories used as bait to get the press to write about him – by his own admission. And it's working. He's become a master at manipulation....

...What's amazing to me is that the press doesn't see through it. They take Trump's bait every single time, covering each insult he hurls, writing long profile pieces, begging for interviews. I used to think that not talking about Trump would stop the madness – that maybe if the rest of us ignored his insults he would stop. Now I think the opposite. Good people concerned about the future of our country need to speak up.

If Trump has serious policy proposals, great, let's debate them. But if he's making outrageous, sensational statements – as he wrote about years ago as part of his media strategy – let's call them for what they are: manipulative, calculated and deeply divisive. (Quoted)

Biblebybennett: What is the story you get each and every day from the big news organisations? Donald trump is stupid, Donald Trump is an obnoxious bigot, Donald Trump is not intelligent enough to be President of The United States. Bolstered by Trump apparantly claiming that President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was against the American Civil War (1861-1865) The Compliant Major News Media (who appoints themselves the righteous arbitors of truth, justice, and facts) immediately pounced. What they were too foolish and too arrogant and high-minded to see is that this rube, this bigot, this fool had just manipulated themonce again.

Donald Trump is far from the ignorant billionaire they try to make him out to be, actually Donald Trump is using the news media to his advantage and making them look foolish and weak in the process, and worst of all, the american people see it happening and understand why.

Let's not forget the fact that long before Donald Trump came along that polls showed the public's opinion of the News Media was very low, far lower than Trump's numbers are today, and the numbers for The News Media are still very low but The Compliant Major News Media will never let you know that. This low opinion and mistrust of the Compliant Major News Media was the result of the 2008 election where the same News Media became The Compliant Major News Media which sought to protect and support the Presidency of Barak Hussein Obama and The Democratic Party. Americans watched this happen and got disgusted. It shouldalso be pointed out that the public's opinion of Congress was also about as low as that of The Compliant Major News Media, so even before Trump uttered a single political word the public mistrusted Trump's adversaries more so than Trump himself.

Donald Trump is a clever man. He observed how The Compliant Major News Media operated. He observed how they compete for news, play with the facts, givepreferable coverage to some and not others, were feverishly trying to have something they can call "breaking news" to get ratings, and Donald Trump figured out that he could keep the Compliant Major News Media hurried and confused with empty tweets he doesn't mean or suggest and action and make them chase hisadministration 24/7 to get more information- all the while it distracts them from digging into any topic with any relevant depth, and here's the best part: Donald Trump IS ALWAYS THE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.

In many ways, Trump is like Beetlejuice; you keep saying his name and he magically appears and has power.

For those of us who wish we could turn on the major news networks and actually get news, know what's going on in the world, we suffer, and we have to turn the internet to get answers anymore. People also keep forgetting that the News business is a "for profit" business, they are not a public service and have to turn a profit to sell advertising so this battle between Trump and The Compliant Major News Media has successfully turned The Compliant Major News Media into tabloids.

This is yet another masterful means Donald Trump has of tweaking the news media, tweets. The President has long ago figured out that he can put statementsout into the social stratosphere for all to read without it going through the political filter of The Compliant Major News Media- so, now , apparently, tweets have become the actual news! And this drives the once mighty and influent ion Compliant Major news media insane as they spend and entire day's worth of valuablenews time, rolling out one talking head after another, to try to find some way to put out an argument that counters Trumps.

Fact is that the same American public which watched as the people who call themselves unbiased journalists and news organization throw away the rulebook tohelp get Barak Hussein Obama elected, who gave up their journalistic dignity to help preserve the image of Obama as President, and then try to do the same for the less popular Hillary Clinton are the same public which is watching the Compliant Major News Media try to get away with the same antics against Donald Trump and the public mistrusts the news media too much to allow that to happen.

It has actually become fun to watch press briefings at the White House nowadays as the news people who thought they were controlling the information are angrily attacking the people who now actually do and how they rail when they do not get what they want and how they want it. And it is actually fun to see how this ignorant billionaire seems to be able to make so many highly educated journalists and news organizations run through his maze like rats.

VANISHING MONUMENTS, GRAVES, AND HISTORY: THE POLITICAL STERILIZATION OF AMERICA

City Council votes to remove Robert E. Lee statueSeparate motion passes to rename Lee Park

The Cavalier Daily

Charlottesville City Council passed a motion Monday to remove the Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee from Lee Park. The decision passed with three votes infavor of the removal and two against.

Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy, and Councillors Kristin Szakos and Bob Fenwick, voted in favor of removing the statue from downtown Charlottesville while Mayor Mike Signer and Councilor Kathy Galvin voted against. The resolution to the statue was first proposed last month at the Council meeting on Jan. 17. The vote ended in a 2-2 tie with Councilor Bob Fenwick abstaining.

The Council was presented with two options — remove the statue from the park and relocate it or contextualize the monument with its historical background and use it as a forum for discussion. Over a hundred Charlottesville community members sat in on the meeting to convey their positions about the location of the statue, filling the meeting room and outside hallway. Signer began the meeting with an expressed desire for members and attendees to maintain decorum and respect.

“We all have a stake in this city and in our commonwealth and our nation and we all have a right to feel safe and to feel hurt,” Signer said. “Even about the most difficult matters we should be able, at the very least, to disagree without being disagreeable. So I am asking everyone tonight to proceed in thespirit of civil and civic dialogue.”...

...“Removing [the statues] would be a weak solution that uncourageously [sic] evades the more challenging question of how to learn from them and theiroriginal public settings,” former University Art History Prof. Malcolm Bell said. “By leaving them where they are we would be called upon to tell their story without resorting to the false narratives of the past.”

After the speeches from the community, Szakos formally introduced the motion on the floor to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from Lee Park as well as torename the park. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: If you think that Biblebybennett is confusing or associating the Christian religion with the Confederacy, that will be quickly dispelled by aquick internet search of your own, where you will quickly see that these two things (The Confederacy and The Christian religion) are separate issues, separateentities that are progressively suffering the same fate as the other and have been, in increasing intensity, for some time now. For sake of space the Christian religion has suffered losses in china, England, New jersey, California, Italy, Florida, Maryland...and the list goes on and on. All of these places and more have moved to get Christian symbols and references (especially the Christian Cross) removed from public (and even private) view.

It is not at all a coincidence that all remembrances of what was The Confederacy of The United States is suffering a similar fate. The removal of flags, symbols, and memorials is one thing, but it is not limited to that, is it? The very graves of Confederates, the very bones of those who fought for their cause, are being moved to obscure places so as not to offend this generation. What would you call it when one generation seeks to erase another? This goes beyond politics, it is a sterilization of history, the choosing of what is right and wrong all based on who may or may not be offended on a given day.

The reason why this is happening is prophetical:

" For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Book of Matthew Ch. 24

Biblebybennett included more text than necessary to show not just how in these latter days that many shall be offended (and that's what everyone seems to be looking to be nowadays, offended, as if it is somekind of nobel cause) but looking at what preceeds this and what follows this are telling of our times. Will you find a verse of scripture that states explicitly that in these days mankind shall seek out symbols of hatred and erase them? No, but it does not take a Bible Scholar to see that before this trend towards eradicating images of the cross from public conscience got popular that nations have risen against other nations, that earthquakes have been devestating the planet, that both Jews and Christians have been hunted and killed but Christians especially for the witness of Jesus Christ.

Is it a coincidence that in the same days the world is seeing unprecendented hunting and execution of Christians for the witness of Jesus Christ that at the same time, in this country, there are popular movements, all based on someone or a group of people being offended, to remove christian symbolism from public view? the fact that this is also happening to the Confederacy gives credibility to the notion of remnoving offensive images which may suggest racism. Biblebybennett can draw up dozens of instances over just the past 10 years in which politicians, religious leaders, social leaders, even some Christians have referred to the Christian religion (and especially The Holy bible) as being racist!

Do you see? this popular movement to remove our racist heritage, The Confederacy, is a precursor to doing the same thing with Christianity.

It does not matter that each and every race which has come to our shores has practiced their own acts of racism, focusing on that will not achieve the ultimate goal of getting The Christian religion (and especially Jesus Christ) removed from public view and stuffed away into some museum somewhere.

WHY IS A VAST SUPERCOMPUTER INVOLVED WITH YOUR TAXES THIS YEAR?

IBM Gives Watson a New Challenge: Your Tax Return

The New York Times

In its first steps toward commercialization, IBM’s Watson took on grand, science-laden challenges like helping doctors diagnose cancer. But that is changing as IBM strives to build its artificial intelligence technology into a multibillion-dollar business. Today, companies including Geico, Staples and Macy’s are adding the Watson technology to answer customer questions or to improve mobile apps that guide shoppers through stores.

Now in its broadest deployment so far, Watson will be assisting H&R Block’s 70,000 tax professionals this filing season at 10,000 branch offices across the country, where 11 million people file taxes....

..For IBM, the collaboration with H&R Block underlines its strategy in the emerging market for artificial intelligence technology. Watson will touch consumers, but through IBM’s corporate clients. “Watson will become a really smart, virtual assistant,” said David Kenny, senior vice president of IBM’s Watson business.

The embedded-in-business formula is different from the path other technology companies are taking with digital assistants powered by artificial intelligence. Others are pursuing the broad consumer market directly with artificial intelligence software helpers like Siri from Apple, Cortana from Microsoft, Alexa from Amazon and Assistant from Google...

...“This is not magic,” Mr. Cobb said the Watson team told him. “You have to teach Watson over time.”

Watson proved to be a quick learner. Its core skill is its ability to digest and classify vast amounts of text, using what is known as natural language processing. So, among other things, it was fed the 74,000 pages of the federal tax code and thousands of tax-related questions culled from H&R Block’s data, accumulated over six decades of preparing tax returns.

Then, H&R Block tax professionals were brought in to “train” Watson. They approved when Watson suggested a smart question for a particular tax filer andcorrected it when a proposed question was off base. The tax professionals were not told they were working with Watson, just a software program...

..But Watson’s other task was to make visiting H&R Block a more “engaging and interactive” experience, he said. Clients will be able to watch suggestions and questions on a separate screen, as the Watson-assisted tax professional works. Mr. Cobb said he was “very pleased” with Watson’s performance in the 100-office trial. But the test will come after this tax season, when H&R Block sees what percentage of customers return next year.

The retention rate is crucial in the tax-preparation business. Sixty percent of the 140 million Americans who file taxes seek help instead of doing them themselves. Kartik Mehta, an analyst at Northcoast Research, estimates that H&R Block’s retention rate is 75 percent. “If they can get that 75 percent up to 80 percent, it’s a big deal for H&R Block,” Mr. Mehta said.

The Watson collaboration is a “long-term partnership,” Mr. Cobb said. Mr. Kenny of IBM described this tax season as “phase one” of the partnership.

Over time, Watson’s suggestions get better and better, more individually tailored to specific occupations, household finances and personal circumstances. “It’s crawl, walk, run learning,” Mr. Kenny said. “But the pace of the Watson learning is so much faster than humans.” (Abbreviated & Quoted)

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How IBM's Watson Can Help Cut Your Tax Bill Yahoo News

Computers have helped people wade through their tax returns for decades. Preparers at H&R Block this season will get some help, too. But a computer won't just crunch the numbers. Rather, it will probe your return and ask questions along the way--trying to make sure you don't pay a penny more than necessary to Uncle Sam. H&R Block has "hired" IBM's Watson--a powerful artificial intelligence system--to act as a cyberguide in preparing taxes.

To study for the job, Watson digested the federal tax code (more than 74,000 pages) and absorbed thousands of conversations between H&R Block's tax preparers and clients. Its objective is to analyze conversational patterns to determine whether taxpayers may be missing opportunities for savings. Now, when a tax preparer and client go through the paperwork, Watson can follow along, and the system will issue prompts on computer screens if it detects a potential deduction or credit they may be missing. "Watson will ask questions that we might not think about on our own," says Ed Harbour, a vice president at IBM.

With H&R Block expecting Watson to assist with processing 11 million returns this year, the system should get smarter as it absorbs more data and conversational patterns, making it a more useful tool, says Harbour. For example, IBM says the system should eventually provide taxpayers with "increasingly personalized tips" to help lower their tax bills in the future.

Watson isn't the only AI technology playing a greater role in our lives. If you use Facebook, Google or Amazon.com, for instance, AI is behind the scenes, guiding you through the site. Meanwhile, Watson is expanding into scientific research, robotics and other fields, and IBM hopes it will push to the forefront of several major technology trends, such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing and personalized medicine.

Biblebybennett: "..learning so much faster than humans." Feel safe with technology yet? Biblebybennett first brought your attention to Watson a few years ago when a fully integrated computer system was designed to think and act like a human with such cognigence that it defeated the two top players on the extremely popular quiz show, Jeopardy. Then, not only did this supercomputer outsmart two of the sharpest humans to ever play the game but did so with human interaction presented in a pleasant human voice.

That was only 3 years ago and the Watson technology has only improved on that since. Watson then got the chance to prove its usefulness by being incorporated into the health systems of select states as a point of informational access, diagnosis, and real-time patient tracking. This supercomputer system that already is programmed with the sum of all human knowledge proved that it could do what human doctors can do and did so with instantaneous access to cloud technology that enables it to know things human doctors cannot know immediately. this system proved that it really could know what is happening to a patient very far away, diagnose that patient's condition, and recommend treatment. Once proven, Watson quickly became a sought after and reliable system for many state's healthcare networks. Then Watson became an application for business, and proved itself there, too.

If you ponder the why's and what-fors about filing your personal income taxes you would have to ask yourself why this computers ability to analyze data andconversational patterns helps you save money? This type of data analysis is typically used in intelligence gathering by our Federal Protection forces to anticipate terror and criminal acts on behalf of foreign actors, so why is it crucial here? This is yet another telling sign that this supercomputer is not just doing your taxes for you, is it? This Supercomputer, Watson, is learning. And the bait they use to get consumers hooked on what Watson offers is the same things they always use to entice consumers, the promise of money, or in this case, the probability of saving money..

So ask yourself how such a thing could come about? How could it possible that one man would have this ability to not only give life to something that has no life, an image, but also know how each and every human on this planet did not worship that image? Watson is a supercomputer that uses data and conversation patterns that current intelligence agencies use to anticipate what people are doing or what they will do. Add probably another 20 years or so of technological advancements to what this machine can do now and ask yourself if it can happen?

All anyone needs to do is reflect on just the past 20 years alone to see what leaps in technology have done and add another 20 onto that and it becomes clear that this kind of technology, intelligence technology that mimics and even anticipates human congnigent abilities, and you quickly see that it may not even need 20 years to happen. Look at the reason why this supercomputer is involved with your very personal and confidential tax return information, it is to test Watson, this after it actually fooled seasoned H&R Block tax pros into thinking they were dealing with a real tax filer. They are putting Watson through these trials in various professions not to test to see if this vast super-processor can compute they are doing to this to see if they can fool people into believing they are dealing with a real person!

Watson is a machine. A machine does not have life, however, we have a science-culture today that is attempting to redefine what "life" means. If Watson (or its successors) were to have the entire sume of all human knowlege programmed into it, if it were to be capable via new technology to be connected with all available monitoring and communication technology (of which is constantly being improved upon) would this super-computer not appear to the observer as equal to or even mistaken for an actual human?

SCIENTOLOGY: IT LOOKS LIKE A CHRISTIAN CROSS, BUT IT ISN'T

Biblebybennett: So what exactly is Scientology?

Scientology.org says this:

Developed by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that offers a precise path leading to a complete and certain understanding of one’s true spiritualnature and one’s relationship to self, family, groups, Mankind, all life forms, the material universe, the spiritual universe and the Supreme Being.

Scientology addresses the spirit—not the body or mind—and believes that Man is far more than a product of his environment, or his genes.

Scientology comprises a body of knowledge which extends from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these are:

Man is an immortal spiritual being.

His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime.

His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized.

Scientology further holds Man to be basically good, and that his spiritual salvation depends upon himself, his fellows and his attainment of brotherhoodwith the universe.

Scientology is not a dogmatic religion in which one is asked to accept anything on faith alone. On the contrary, one discovers for oneself that theprinciples of Scientology are true by applying its principles and observing or experiencing the results.

The ultimate goal of Scientology is true spiritual enlightenment and freedom for all.

Biblebybennett: But why does your logo appear to feature a Christian Cross?

In a reply e-mail from Scientology.org:

"Thank you for your email and question. We have no disrepect for other religions. Please see the below on what our cross stands for. This is from the FAQs on our website which may have more information you are looking for:

It is an eight-pointed cross representing the eight parts, or dynamics, of life through which each individual is striving to survive. These parts are: the urge toward existence as self, as an individual; the urge to survive through creativity, including the family unit and the rearing of children; the urgeto survive through a group of individuals or as a group; the urge toward survival through all Mankind and as all Mankind; the urge to survive as life forms and with the help of life forms such as animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation; the urge to survive of the physical universe, by the physical universe itself and with the help of the physical universe and each one of its component parts; the urge to survive as spiritual beings or the urge for life itselfto survive; the urge toward existence as infinity, also identified as the Supreme Being. To be able to live in harmony with respect to each of these spheres of existence is symbolized by the Scientology cross."

Biblebybennett: My thanks to the Scientology Rep who took the time to answer questions. Fact is that Biblebybennett could not get a clear answer as to why Scientology's logo appears to resemble that of Christian denominations. Even if the intent was to represent a belief in self acheivement, why then would a 1950' or 1960's religion base its appearance on a symbol which had already been in use for decdades identifying itself to Jesus Christ?

If not outright confescation or blasphemy this is certainly intended to be used to confuse others to somehow associate Scientology with the same values as that of Christianity. It is designed to confuse the faithful.

WHEN WILL THE END OF THE WORLD COME?

Ten verses get shared every second on the world’s most-clicked Scripture program. Here are the most popular of 2017.

Nine years ago, YouVersion’s Bible app was one of the first 200 free apps in the brand-new Apple App Store. Within seven years, it had been downloaded 200 million times. In 2017, the Bible app reached 300 million installs...

....The app offered 1,656 versions of the Bible in 1,186 languages in 2017, up from 1,200 in 2015. Working with about 10 majorBible translation agencies—including Wycliffe Bible Translators, Pioneer Bible Translators, and the United Bible Societies—YouVersion is part of a movement to translate the Bible into 99.9 percent of the world’s languages by 2033.

That collaboration among Bible translation agencies, led by major donors, has inspired givers and revolutionized the industry. “We are at a pivotal point in history,” Gruenewald stated. “In recent years, technology has made it possible to accelerate Bible translation like never before. There's incredible momentum around this effort that we know won't stop until every person has Scripture available in their heart language.”

The Bible app has been downloaded in every country, growing the most last year in Angola (up 733%), Mozambique (243%),Slovakia (235%), and India (228%). Downloads accelerated just as fast in areas that are friendly to Christianity (131% inBrazil) as those that are more hostile (155% in Iraq).

Last year, Bible app users shared verses 222 million times and highlighted, bookmarked, or noted them 1.4 billion times. Inother words, every second an average of 10.8 verses were shared, 42.3 were highlighted, and 2.8 were bookmarked. The world’s favorite verse this year—measured by how often it was highlighted, shared, and bookmarked—was Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be withyou wherever you go.”

Fourteen of 35 countries featured by YouVersion preferred Joshua 1:9, including Chile, Egypt, and the Netherlands. Jeremiah29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you …”) was the most popular in 10 countries, including Canada, Indonesia, and theUnited Kingdom.

John 3:16 (“For God so loved the world …”) was the most highlighted, shared, and bookmarked in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Romans 8:28 (“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him ...”) topped the list in the United States, Romania, Russia, and Taiwan. (ABBREVIATED AND QUOTED)

BIBLEBYBENNETT:

"All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

Book of Matthew Ch. 24

So this verse makes it quite clear that it shall only come AFTER the entire world hears the gospels that we could expect the world to end. And Biblebybennett, as well as scripture, nevers states that the planet and all life on it shall die, merely that the world-system shall come to an end, that which has been ruled by Satan, shall come to an end. Thus to prepare all human life for the final days, and that they may be judged fairly and justly, they must first have been read their rights, that is what the gospel is...the knowing of their right to save themselves from damnation by hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and the opportunity to choose either his way or the die-way!

Cause for concern though, especially on part of Biblebybennett, which adheres to the traditional King James version as nothing moreis necessary, is that there are admitted to be over 1600 different version of The Bible in the world today-that's more than 1600 different opinions about what is taught, and belief is an easy thing to sway if errant ideas make their way into scriptures. remember also that each and every one of these more than 1600 versions of The Bible all are built off from the original King James Version. And whenever the forces of Anti-Christ seek to attack the scriptures, notice how they do not attack the other 1600+ versions anywhere near as much as they do the original King James Version- so this tells Biblebybennett that the origional King James Version must be the more blessed, only ordained, and most desired of versions.

THE POPE WANTS CHRISTIANS TO APOLOGIZE TO GAYS?

Pope Francis says Christians should apologize to gay people

USA Today

In a groundbreaking statement about homosexuality, Pope Francis says Christians and the Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gay people and others they have offended or treated poorly in the past.

"I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied pastorally," the pope told reporters Sunday aboard the papal plane returning from Armenia to Rome.

In 2013, Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality, saying that homosexual acts were sinful but not homosexual orientation. Thepope's comments came in response to a question asked by a journalist about a German cardinal who said the church should apologize for being "very negative"about gays, multiple media outlets reported. Francis was on an official visit to Armenia from June 24-26. During a one-hour conversation on the plane, the pope touched on many topics involving the church and forgiveness for those it has marginalized. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett: Who does this Pope think he is? This Pope thinks that he is the father of all Christianity, everywhere-even to those who do not belong tohis church. The larger problem is that The Roman catholic Church is in collusion with both The UN and the western news media to make it seem as if heactually does speak for all Christians in the world, this is the real danger we Christians face today. This Pope either unwittingly, or worse, knowingly, is actually standing up with the rest of the world that already hates Chritians and hates Jesus Christ and actually agreeing with them!

The point of the matter here is that this Pope (who is holding the same Bible you may be holding) looks at the words of The Lord, looks at the same scriptures you do and chooses to forsake that and say and do things which please the world. (Manpleasers, Book of Galations Ch. 1 ).

HOLY EARTH! SINKHOLES OPENING UP EVERYWHERE

A huge sinkhole opened up beneath a major road in downtown Fukuoka on Tuesday morning, disrupting traffic, power supplies and banking systems, with localauthorities evacuating nearby areas for fear of more cave-ins.

The police and the city office said they have yet to receive any injury reports.

The site is around the area where construction work is under way to extend the city subway system’s Nanakuma Line. The police and the city are investigating to determine if the sinkhole was caused by the work. The police are blocking nearby areas and calling on people in buildings near the accident site to evacuate the area. The road apparently caved in around 5:15 a.m. at an intersection near JR Hakata Station in the capital of the prefecture, the city office said.

TV footage showed the hole filled with water from underground channels. The city evacuated buildings including several offices near the site at 9:45 a.m., saying there were signs the cave-in could cause buildings to collapse. Police also told nearby offices and households not to use gas, fearing gas leaks. The Bank of Fukuoka said its online systems appeared to have been disrupted by the accident. Fukuoka airport also temporarily experienced blackouts, forcing ticket machines to stop working briefly. As of 10 a.m., the sinkhole had expanded to 30 meters long, 27 meters wide and 15 meters deep...

..In the past few years, there have been cases in which underground construction work has caused roads to cave in. In October 2014, about three meters of road in the city of Fukuoka caved in several meters near where construction to move sewage was under way. No one was injured. Last December, a sidewalk located in front of a building construction site in the city of Nagoya caved in about 5 meters deep. No one was injured but the site was about 300 meters from the Nagoya Railroad Co.’s Nagoya Station. A construction failure in a concrete wall between the sidewalk and the construction was blamed for the cause.

Also in Nagoya in June, several roads and part of a park sunk in near a site where construction was under way to build a tunnel to store rainwater.

Biblebybennett: Most will blame human progress, construction, drilling and other industries for these sinkholes, but what can explain the massive holesopening up in remote regions of the world, far away from civilization? "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

Book of Genesis Ch. 7

Let's be honest and truthful about something; Science has absolutely no conclusive facts which prove what they believe, what they teach your kids in school, as is the makeup of the Earth's mantle and core-it is all guesswork, hypothesis, and conjecture. The nearest glimpse ever obtained was the deepest core drilling which exceeded just over one mile, and all of that demonstrated a solid mantle...at least it did in that one spot they drilled in. So are we simply taking it for granted that the earth beneath our feet of solid, stable, reliable?

What Biblebybennett notices about The Book of Genesis Ch 7 & 8 is also where the water went? When the waters which completely covered the entire earthreceded where did all of that water go? If you want to be of the sort which argues that all of that water went into either the polar ice caps or even the current oceans or seas our current state of what they are calling "climate change" with the receding polar ice caps seems to discount that. In fact, observation shows that polar ice which has either melted away or broken off and melted away has not resulted in any real significant change in ocean levels.

Could this possibly be because there are massive unseen, undetected reservoirs of water under the seas? This verse does say "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up." So this means that the great flood was fed by waters from above AND below forced up. So if the lands were suddenly swamped by waterspercolating up from beneath then that would liquefy the ground and any object upon it that could not float would immediately sink into the ground!

We have actually seen this happen before in US history; Between 1811 and 1812, what is referred to as The New Madrid earthquakes affecting large areas of Missouri actually resulted in subterranean water sources coming up and liquefying the surrounding landscape. This series of earthquakes were so severe that they actually altered the course of the Missouri River. So, why sinkholes? The only explanation science has for the phenomenon of sinkholes is simple underground water erosion.

To make a long story short; Biblebybennett sees these sinkholes as warning signs:

"But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;..

..And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:"

Book of Acts Ch. 2

"In the Earth?" How do you see signs taking place within the earth? You can't, that is unless it's something in the earth which becomes manifest on the surface. Bear in mind also that the reference to "blood, fire, and smoke vapor" clearly denote volcanic activity, but mankind has always lived with that so it has to be a sign from within the earth that would be both new, disturbing, and especially threatening.

You reading this have enough problems, you don't need Biblebybennett adding to them, but a simple facts is also fast emerging that sinkholes have opened up in the most bizarre of places, have opened up in suburban areas, rural areas, in the middle of major cities, and in far remote countryside. they cannot be detected in advance, they cannot be anticipated, we have governments and science not at all interested in doing so and there is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that one cannot open up under your house!

An off-duty sheriff’s deputy died and two other people were injured when two vehicles plunged into a water-filled sinkhole in San Antonio on Sunday,authorities said.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that the victim was 69-year-old Deputy Dora Linda Nishihara, who was a courthouse bailiff. Fox San Antonioreported that Nishihara worked as a reserve deputy from August 2009 to October 2016.

"My heart and prayers go out to the family involved in this tragedy," Mayor Ivy Taylor said in a statement. "The fire department, TCI and SAWS have beenworking to secure the scene of the sinkhole and will remain there until all repairs have been made." A crane was used to retrieve her personal car from water about 12-feet deep. Nishihara’s body was found inside the submerged vehicle. Sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said Nishihara was not working Sunday when her vehicle fell into the sink hole. Utility officials said the sinkhole appeared after a sewer line ruptured during heavy rain earlier Sunday. (Abbreviated)

Biblebybennett; Does someone politically or socially important have to die before our Government takes this seriously? If this had been eithet BHO's motorcade, or worse still, if this had been Beyonce's hair-dresser's babysitter this had happened to it would get more attention.

WHEN DID WE BECOME A NATION THAT BEGINS EVERY SENTENCE WITH "I MEAN?"

Biblebybennett:

"Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."

Book of Matthew Ch. 5

Biblebybennett has no news articles to pass along with this, it is an observation, and an observation which surely many others have made. It was not long, maybe just a few years ago, that this phrase started showing up in societal circles, picked up by social media, and then naturally spread onto mainstream media, and today has evolved to the point where we have professionals in fields in which use of proper language is crucial (such as attorneys) starting sentences with "I mean." What is going on here?

Referenced above is an exerpt from the book of Matthew in which Jesus speaks out against swearing (not ot be confused with swaring or cursing, they are related, but not the same) and it refers to an instinct which exists in the spirit of all mankind to respond to certain experiences or frustrations verbally- the compulsion to react to things by blurting out a vain phrase. This is akin to taking the Lord's name in vain, which is a spiritual reaction to a certain situation resulting in expressing a vain pronouncement. Think about it for a moment, when you look at the phrase "I mean" at the beginning of a statement in text it clearly doesn't belong there, has no contextual relationship to what the person is talking about, it is in vain!

This is also covered in the book: Encounter with The Aberdeen Wildman, a true story" (yet another shameless plug) when dealing with the phrase "OMG.""OMG" (and all the forms it comes in) is a swear, a very open swear, and it is offensive to The Lord and offensive to a Christian becaused it is openly taking the name of The Lord God in vain, and someone can be damned for doing that.

As stated, this a problem born of the spirit, a frustration within the human spirit. Humans have an interesting relationship with other humans which goes almost completely unnoticed and that is how spirits can sense other people's spirits. Just like a communicable virus, spiritual frustrations, spiritual complications, effected and cursed spiritual situations can actually be spread to other people by the spirit because your spirit can transcend the body- this is how demonics and other spiriual entities are able to make contact with a person, this is also how people sometimes sense a spiritual entity without seeing it. So, while it may seem harmless on the surface, even just a little annoying, people are learning instinctively to say "I mean" the same way they learned to say "OMG" or "GD" or "JC."

Study history, the history of societies, all through the ages there were interesting and colorful phrases used by people of the day to use to react to their frustrations, "I mean" is just the next one of many, and Biblebybennett cannot wait to have to hear it no more.

MEXICO? THE REAL OPEN-BORDER THREAT COMES FROM CANADA

“ My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”

According to a new government survey to be released this week, the majority of those surveyed indicated their belief that Muslim immigrants hold“fundamentally different values” (including on the issue of women’s rights) and that “mainstream Islam promotes violence”. Attitudes of participantsare already being dismissed as “Islamophobic”.

The Toronto Star titled their account of the story: “Ontario facing ‘epidemic of Islamophobia’ survey finds”. The article did not discuss possiblereasons for the attitude of Ontarians, which just may be based on real occurrences with real victims. Some examples: i) Sweden has now become the rapecapital of the world; ii) a thousand women were sexually assaulted in Germany as the migrant rape crisis worsens; iii) the 70,000 crimes committed orattempted by migrants in Germany, iv) the declaration by the Islamic State that they have infiltrated the refugees and will continue to do so.

There were also the stories the media covered up, about Muslim “refugees” threatening a Minnesota community with rape, and the incident involving thesexual harassment of teen girls by refugee men at a high school in New Brunswick...

...It is reprehensible that the entirely warranted caution and fears about Muslim migrant violence that are expressed by hardworking, taxpaying citizens of Canada (and in other Western nations) are brushed aside and deemed “islamophobic”. Authorities are failing their citizenry...

..While 60 percent of Ontarians say they initially supported the decision to import Syrian refugees, 75 percent now say Muslim immigrants hold fundamentallydifferent values and a majority now say Islam’s mainstream doctrines promote violence. Only one-third of those in the region have a positive impression of the religion. Three-quarters of Ontarians wish their country would focus on taking care of its own citizens instead of devoting resources to foreign refugees.

A majority of Ontarians — 53 percent — say Canada should only accept immigrants from countries with similar values as their own and 74 percent say Canadaneeds to be more strict about the immigrants it accepts into the country. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

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U.S. admits record number of Muslim refugees in 2016

World Wide Religious News

A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the countryin that period, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. That means the U.S. has admittedthe highest number of Muslim refugees of any year since data on self-reported religious affiliations first became publicly available in 2002.

Almost the same number of Christian (37,521) as Muslim refugees were admitted in fiscal 2016, which ended Sept. 30. A slightly lower share of 2016’s refugees were Christian (44%) than Muslim, the first time that has happened since fiscal 2006, when a large number of Somali refugees entered the U.S...

..Just two countries – Syria (12,486) and Somalia (9,012) – were the source of more than half of fiscal 2016’s Muslim refugees. The rest are from Iraq (7,853), Burma (Myanmar) (3,145), Afghanistan (2,664) and other countries (3,741).

Overall, a far larger total number of Christian refugees than Muslim refugees have entered the U.S. since fiscal 2002. During the past 15 years, the U.S. has admitted 399,677 Christian refugees and 279,339 Muslim refugees, meaning that 46% of all refugees who have entered the U.S. during this time have beenChristian while 32% have been Muslim.

In the just-ended fiscal year, about 8,120 refugees (10%) were members of faiths other than Islam or Christianity. More than 3,000 belonged to Buddhisttraditions while nearly 2,000 more were Hindu. A much lower number of refugees in 2016 were atheists or claimed no religious affiliation (449 refugeesoverall, or less than 1% of the year’s refugees).

The U.S. received 84,995 refugees in fiscal year 2016, effectively meeting the 85,000 ceiling set by the Obama administration at the beginning of the year. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (16,370), Syria (12,587) and Burma (Myanmar) (12,347) were the top origin countries of refugees in 2016. Together, efugees from these three nations represented nearly half (49%) of all refugees admitted to the U.S. over the past year. (Abbreviated & Quoted)

Biblebybennett: Americans forget (primarily because the Compliant Major News Media chooses not to talk about it) that there are already huge Muslim communities in the Canadian border-states of Minnesota and Michigan. Biblebybennett is not the only one who sees the opportunity for Canadian Muslims to simply walk or drive across the US-Canadian border and enlarge those communities, doing so because that swells their numbers and their power and infuence, but also makes it tougher to remove them in the event it becomes necessary to do so.

There are way too many other contributing sources to quote for this, but in other news articles available, the overall balance of the incoming population which is actually anti-Christ (that is to say actually against Jesus Christ and the teachings of Jesus Christ and agaist those who align themselves with this), coupled with existing Christians who have liberal leanings which are against Christ is definitely creating a predominantly Anti-Christian America. This is important to know because this will accelerate the number of legal, legislative, and social changes being made even now which serve to remove Jesus Christ and Christian morals from the american lanscape so as not to be seen, relegated (like the Confederate flag was) into museums.

For the purposes of Bible Prophecy, Clinton's dream of common market and open borders will actually lend to fulfill the prophecies found in The Book of Daniel Chapter 7 & 8, in which we see the formation of a global society, global government, global market-all to fall eventually under the direct control of one man, the AntiChrist. For this reason, Biblebybennett believes that the global forces are well aligned for Hillary Clinton to become President, because everything Dnald Trump proposes runs in the opposite direction. it's probably not what you want, far from it, but it's what you will get, and it is Bible Prophecy.

THE WIND AND THE WAVES ROARING

Storms are Getting Stronger

NASA

What exactly does it mean for storms to get “stronger”? Does it mean faster winds? A larger wind field? Lower pressure at the center? More rain and snowfall? Higher storm surges?

“You have to remember that storms aren’t one-dimensional,” says Del Genio. “There are many types of storms, and sorting out how aspects of each type respond to warming is where the science really gets interesting.”..

..Storms feed off of latent heat, which is why scientists think global warming is strengthening storms. Extra heat in the atmosphere or ocean nourishes storms; the more heat energy that goes in, the more vigorously a weather system can churn...

..Already, there is evidence that the winds of some storms may be changing. A study based on more than two decades of satellite altimeter data (measuring sea surface height) showed that hurricanes intensify significantly faster now than they did 25 years ago. Specifically, researchers found that storms attain Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours faster than they did in the 1980s. Another satellite-based study found that global wind speeds had increased by an average of 5 percent over the past two decades.

There is also evidence that extra water vapor in the atmosphere is making storms wetter. During the past 25 years, satellites have measured a 4 percent rise in water vapor in the air column. In ground-based records, about 76 percent of weather stations in the United States have seen increases in extreme precipitation since 1948. One analysis found that extreme downpours are happening 30 percent more often. Another study found that the largest storms now produce 10 percent more precipitation. (Quoted)

Biblebybennett:

"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;"

Book of Matthew Ch. 21

What you are seeing today are simply the symptoms, the beginning. In the coming days storms of various types shall increase in severity and intensity. These storms shall increase with such intensity that it shall become a global problem, not just for the coastline communities. Biblebybennett has noticed like so many other have that the winds have become more substantial in this year alone and the increased winds have made life worse for vacationers, too. Living at a beach comminuty, Biblebybennett sees every day how the beaches are suffering due to the increasaed winds and increased wave activity. Along with that the increases of ocean temps have brought sharks and other species closer to the shores and shallow waters for a longer period of time.

Biblebybennett could have provided dozens of news items to illustrate just how these unique weather changes have become a global issue but that would take up too much space, and about anyone can watch the news and see this. What else they can see is how the oceans appear to be getting meaner. just recently we had a Father and his three children lost in the Gulf of Mexico and the only recieved distress call indicated encountering 6 foot waves, this perhaps overcoming the craft, and this is not an isolated incident. While not a new phenomenom, rogue waves are on the increase damaging cruise ships and making commercial shipping difficult at times. As far as pleasure craft is concerned, The US Coast Guard has never been busier.

This is ofcourse due to the increase of temperatures worldwide and this Global Warming (or climate change, as it is now called) is not due to man's burning of fossile fuels so much as is it is due to the fact (according to NASA) that the Sun itself is actually getting hotter. Again, this is according to NASA's own data, but our own Sun's Solar Radiance and sunspot activity has increased exponentially since the turn of the century. In its 11 year solar cycle The Sun changes the level of its output but that output has definitely increased all the same. Other factors effect a planet's warming, for example Venus, which has a much thicker atmosphere and therefore can retain more heat, is actually hotter than Mercury which is closet to The Sun. If the Earth's atmosphere was not capable of retaining heat we would not a green house effect, but it does and we do.

Bear in mind also that there is chemistry that applies here. The Earth's atmosphere is a balanced mixture of chemical elements. Left along they seek a balance as most all things in nature tend to do but if you start to turn up the heat on those balanced elements their molecular makeup begins to change, the blends begin to change and become out of balance and change the nature of their interraction with other elements. this is what is happening to our atmosphere, the increase in heat is making the elements in our atmosphere behave differently, thus changing weather. Worst part about this scenario is that there is absolutley nothing anyone can do to stop it.

If you give the Global Warming advocates everything they want (which is nothing more than a rearranging of the global economy), and if you shut down all of the factories, the fossile fuel-burning culprits, etc. the Earth will still get hotter-ther is not a single thing science can do to stop it!

UFO WORSHIP

Alien-worshipping cult have cottage on Loch Ness

WorldWide Religious News

Loch Ness has emerged as the secret Scottish base of an international cult who believe Jesus was an alien. A cottage on the remote eastern shore of the loch is owned by the Aetherius Society, whose members use it to “co-operate with the Gods from Space”. The four-bedroomed property at picturesque Inverfarigaig, 16 miles from Inverness, boasts its own private pier from which society members take to the mysterious waters in hired boats.

The group says a giant “chakra” – or energy centre – exists in Loch Ness and can be used to help mankind in times of crisis. They also think that Jesus was an extraterrestial and the Star of Bethlehem was a spaceship. The Aetherius Society, which has its UK HQ in Fulham, London, and groups across the globe, has confirmed it bought the Loch Ness property about 40 years ago. The purchase was made in the early 1970s by the founder of the society, Dr George King, originally from Shropshire, who died in 1997.

The presence of the cult is known by a handful of bemused and very tolerant locals, who describe their neighbours as pleasant and respectable. Despite being barely a mile from the busy western shore of the loch, and just 16 miles from Inverness, the presence of the society has been kept secret from the outside world. Mark Bennett, 34, is one of the society’s ten International Directors. Mr Bennett, who is based in Fulham, said: “Beings from other planets are the cornerstone of our belief. They want to help us.

“I love Loch Ness, despite the weather. We visit frequently. We believe it has a special significance.

“We don’t hold events there for the public, it’s more something private for the Aetherius Society.

“It’s a very spiritual place to be.”

He added: “It is connected to the earth, which is a goddess. We believe that there are advanced intelligences within the cosmos and she is one of them.

“She has chakras, which you could say are gateways of energy, and one of them is in Loch Ness.

“We do chanting and mantras, dynamic prayer and positive visualisation. We believe it’s good for us and it’s good for the world.

“Extraterrestrials send out energy to us as well.They pray to us or they use certain equipment to send it out to humanity as well.

He added: “We find the locals very friendly. Last time I was up I was there I went up to the inn. I had a very nice specialty vodka with chilli in it. I just had one though.” Asked about Nessie, he replied: “We don’t have any interest in the monster whatsoever.”

A local, who asked not to be named, said: “It’s called King’s House after their founder George King – it used to be the Pier House. “When he used to come they put out a life ring out and they put out green baize at the end of the pier. He comes on a big white boat and they come out and run around like mad.

“They never try to put their beliefs onto anyone or anything like that.”

Nessie Hunter Steve Feltham, who has observed the loch for 24 years, said they were not the only ones to believe aliens are interested in Loch Ness. Mr Feltham, who recently claimed the best explanation so far of Nessie was a large catfish, said: “There’s a guy working on a tour boat here who believes there is a spaceship on the bottom of the loch.

“There was a woman up here, I think she was from Denmark, who thinks the earth is hollow and Loch Ness is how spaceships are getting in.

“For me, it’s a more out-there idea but the final explanation is anyone’s guess.” Loch Ness was the centre of a UFO mystery in June, after a photo taken by tourists showed two glowing shapes high above the water. On Wednesday, the mystery appeared solved after a similar photo appeared showing the reflection of light bulbs on a holiday home window. The Aetherius base on Loch Ness is less than a mile from Boleskine House, the former home of notorious 20th century “black magician” Aleister Crowley.

Biblebybennett:

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."

Book of II Corinthians Ch. 11

"Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."

And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."

Book of Ezekiel Ch.1

ARE THE EARTH'S OCEANS REALLY DYING?

The Earth's oceans are DYING: Researchers warn time is running out for marine life due to global warming

The UK Daily Mail

Warn of 'effectively irreversible' impact on ocean ecosystems by 2100 Say only 'immediate and substantial' greenhouse gas cuts will help. Time is rapidly running out for the world's oceans and the creatures that live in them as the Earth's climate continues to warm, say scientists. Only 'immediate and substantial' reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can hope to prevent 'massive' impacts on marine ecosystems, warn the experts. Researchers compared the fate of the oceans under two scenarios, one a 'business-as-usual' approach and the other involving drastic cuts in emissions.

Their analysis showed that 'business-as-usual' would have an enormous and 'effectively irreversible' impact on ocean ecosystems and the services they provide, such as fisheries, by 2100. Even after curbing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) enough to prevent temperatures rising by more than 2C compared with pre-industrial levels, many marine ecosystems would still suffer significantly, they said.

The international team led by Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, from the Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche in France, wrote in the journal Science: 'Impacts on key marine and coastal organisms, ecosystems, and services from anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 emissions are already detectable, and several will face high risk of impacts well before 2100, even with the stringent CO2 emissions scenario.

'These impacts are occurring across all latitudes and have become a global concern that spans the traditional north/south divide.' Any new global climate agreement that fails to minimise the impact on oceans will be 'incomplete and inadequate', stressed the scientists. (Abbreviated)

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What is Ocean Acidification? NOAA.GOV

The Chemistry

When carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by seawater, chemical reactions occur that reduce seawater pH, carbonate ion concentration, and saturation states of biologically important calcium carbonate minerals. These chemical reactions are termed "ocean acidification" or "OA" for short. Calcium carbonate minerals are the building blocks for the skeletons and shells of many marine organisms. In areas where most life now congregates in the ocean, the seawater is supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate minerals. This means there are abundant building blocks for calcifying organisms to build their skeletons and shells. However, continued ocean acidification is causing many parts of the ocean to become undersaturated with these minerals, which is likely to affect the ability of some organisms to produce and maintain their shells.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the pH of surface ocean waters has fallen by 0.1 pH units. Since the pH scale, like the Richter scale, is logarithmic, this change represents approximately a 30 percent increase in acidity. Future predictions indicate that the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and become even more acidic. Estimates of future carbon dioxide levels, based on business as usual emission scenarios, indicate that by the end of this century the surface waters of the ocean could be nearly 150 percent more acidic, resulting in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years.

The Biological Impacts

Ocean acidification is expected to impact ocean species to varying degrees. Photosynthetic algae and seagrasses may benefit from higher CO2 conditions in the ocean, as they require CO2 to live just like plants on land. On the other hand, studies have shown that a more acidic environment has a dramatic effect on some calcifying species, including oysters, clams, sea urchins, shallow water corals, deep sea corals, and calcareous plankton. When shelled organisms are at risk, the entire food web may also be at risk. Today, more than a billion people worldwide rely on food from the ocean as their primary source of protein. Many jobs and economies in the U.S. and around the world depend on the fish and shellfish in our oceans.

Biblebybennett: There is this desire to rush to judgment here but this acidification is a slow-growth process that should really only effect certain shell-based sea life or crustaceans in general, the raminder of the mammals in the sea should not be immediately effected by this minute rise. To keep the PH level in any ocean at a certain balance is hard to do. Almost each and every ocean on this planet has active volcanoes spewing various containiments into the seas which also kill sea life and harm the underwater ecosystem. Science has no ability to stop this or control it.

But the point of the story is that we have yet another example of static data which is then politicized to reflect a certain global agenda, climate change. As pointed out already, the subtle warming of the earth cannot be the sole reason for ocean PH offsets but these proponents of climate change conveniently ignore that data and focus solely on man's evil role in poisoning the planet. Biblebybennett needs to clarify the difference between a politically driven science story and actual data, because this decpetion is designed to compel all the people of the earth to comply (out of the urgency and the guilt of the situation) to establish a global tax and global economic programs designed to finally force the planet into a great global society, whether people like it or not.

However, according to scripture, there shall come a day when the very thing they claim can happen will happen, but for other reasons:

"And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea." Book of Revelation Ch. 16

This is yet another judgment which is ordained to befall the world and the evil inhabitants thereof at the latter end of The Great Tribulation. One by one during the Great Tribulation we see The Lord taking away one security after another of which mankind basis his domain upon, now God seeks to take away his ability to use the oceans for food. Think for a moment what the phrase "the blood of a dead man" means. When the human body dies the body's circulatory system shuts down, the circulatory system uses blood to carry oxygen and other types of nutrients the body and organs need to survive. With the lungs shut down oxygencan no longer move through the body and tissue begins to die and then break down. So this is an image of how the Earth's oceans shall die. It shall not occur in a singular event like some massive meteor strike (sorry Hollywood) but as a gradual shut down of the vital process of oxygenation, circulation, and nutrientsupply.

As pointed out already there are a slew of issues in the oceans which can casuse this naturally, without global warming, and volcanity activity has increasedexponentially in almost all of the oceans over the past 100 years, poisioning the seas. The processes which shall serve to fulfill Revelation Ch. 16, causing each and every soul in the seas to die, may have begun long, long ago.